Ralph+Quotes

 My whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day  (Pechorin, 11 May, Princess Mary)  …I am incapable of friendship. Between two friends one is always the slave of the other, though frequently neither will admit it--the slave I cannot be, and to dominate is an hard job since one has to use deception as well.  Pechorin 13 May Princess Mary  …fearing ridicule I buried my finest feelings deep in my heart, and there they died  3 June Princess Mary  If I must die, I must! The world will lose little, and I am weary enough of it all. I am like a man who yawns at a ball and doesn't go home to sleep only because his carriage hasn't come. But now the carriage is here--goodbye!  16 June <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When I think of imminent and possible death, I think only of myself; some do not even do that. Friends, who will forget me tomorrow, or, worse still, who will weave God knows what fantastic yarns about me; and women, who in the embrace of another man will laugh at me in order that he might not be jealous of the departed--what do I care for them? <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">16 June <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">twenty times I can stake my life, even my honor, but my freedom I'll never sell. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">14 June <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Passions are nothing more than ideas at the first stage of their development. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">June 3 <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It is hard to convince women of anything--they must be brought to a point where they will convince themselves. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">June 11 Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When I was still a child, some old woman told my fortune for my mother, predicting that I'd die through a wicked wife. It made a deep impression on me at the time, and an insuperable abhorrence for marriage grew within me. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">14 June Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Women must be given credit for possessing an instinct for spiritual beauty <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">13 May Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Oh women, women! Who really does understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and beguile, but their tone of voice repulses. They either figure out in a flash your innermost thought or they don't get the most obvious hint <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">23 May Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I don't like him either, and I feel we are bound to fall foul of each other one day with sorry consequences for one of us. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">11 May Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second. . . the second? <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">16 June Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The fullness and depth of emotions and thought precludes furious impulses, for the soul in its suffering or rejoicing is fully alive to what is taking place and conscious that so it must be. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">June 3 <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">…for me the verb "to marry" has an ominous ring: no matter how passionately I might love a woman, it's farewell to love if she as much as hints at my marrying her. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">14 June <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The story of a human soul, even the pettiest of souls, can hardly be less interesting and instructive than the story of a nation <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Intro to Journal entries <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I don't like him either, and I feel we are bound to fall foul of each other one day with sorry consequences for one of us. <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">11 May Princess Mary <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Heroism and Failure **
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