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ugh. Jason is such a man

“this vague conviction of indeterminable guilt… had for the general mind all the superior power of mystery over fact. Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.”

“Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been, to issues of longing and constancy.”

“what we call our despair if often only the painful eagerness of undead hope.”

“But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me…. That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would , we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.”

“…images are the brood of desire”

“…to have a discussion cooly waived when you feel that justice is all on your side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.”

“Young folks may get fond of each other before they know what life is, and think it all holiday if they can only get together; but it soon turns into working day, my dear.”