Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
A hot bath I cry, as I sit down in it Again as I lie flat, a hot bath How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there.
Love's a disease. But curable.
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
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