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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIIn context
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Art
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by RomeoIn context
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by FriarIn context
- Happiness
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Life & Death
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
‘T is paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ‘t is true, ‘t is true.
A. E. Housman1859–1936When I Was One-and-Twenty (1896)In context
- Love
My worthy friend, gray are all theories,
And green alone Life’s golden tree.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by MephistophelesIn context
- Ideas
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part Two, Chapter XIVIn context
- Life & Death
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
James Fenimore Cooper1789–1851The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Chapter XXVIn context
- Wisdom
The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent’s Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained⁠—at last!⁠—the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence,⁠—the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 5In context
- Age
Experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Third: The Rally, Chapter XIXIn context
In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Moonstone (1868), First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848), Chapter XIIIn context
- Facts
I am in a chaos of principles⁠—groping in the dark⁠—acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part Sixth: At Christminster Again, Chapter IIn context
- Morality