The Stranger From The Sea

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Life, I reckon, is not worth living if you don’t take a risk.

what the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve

It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones –particularly their own children –that they have been through the same thing. Such information is no use at all! It bounces off one’s own grief –or jealousy or distress. If we are all born the same we are also all born unique –we all go through torments nobody else has ever had.

A man may fall from his horse and break his neck; that does not condemn horse-riding

That was the night I fell in love with you. Instead of just the physical thing . . . Without emotion there’s nothing, is there. Nothing worth recalling. A shabby exercise.

...people often do things that are unlike themselves. What is being true to oneself, I wonder? I never know. Sometimes there are three people inside of me, all wishing different. Which is me?

‘Sir George, you are being absent-minded with me. To a woman that is one of the unforgivable sins.’

...the most important thing was to strike a balance: poverty and riches each in their own way caused unhappiness.