Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges.
Vladimir NabokovTags: life things perfect bridges fog nabakov real-things towers
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren KierkegaardTags: fear life freedom anxiety dizziness
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane AustenTags: life battle-of-the-sexes
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte BrontëTags: life courage remorse errors
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: life self-confidence conduct-of-life self-trust
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Chuck PalahniukDogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger A. CarasLife is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: life life-experience
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric BerneTags: wisdom life equality inspiration discrimination birds loss-of-wonder
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