A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens
“I’ll tell you,” said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, “what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter – as I did!”
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Charles Dickens
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Charles Dickens
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens
Repression is the only lasting philosophy.
Charles Dickens
...she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
Charles Dickens
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Charles Dickens