…she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
Great Expectations
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…she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Repression is the only lasting philosophy.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.