The appalling thing is the ...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love\'s a charity ward, you know.
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
 Lawrence Durrell

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
 Lawrence Durrell
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
 Lawrence Durrell
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
 Lawrence Durrell
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
 Lawrence Durrell
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
 Lawrence Durrell