No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?
Honoré de BalzacTags: money love emotion sense sincerity finance
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Honoré de BalzacTags: women emotion sincerity feeling
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
Thornton WilderTags: sincerity excellence routine
It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s maybe the vestiges of the Romantic Weltschmerz, which means world-weariness or hip ennui. Maybe it’s the fact that most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on how to be cool, hip–and keep in mind that, for kids and younger people, to be hip and cool is the same as to be admired and accepted and included and so Unalone. Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self.
David Foster WallaceTags: arts sincerity angst hipness infinitejest
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.
Haruki MurakamiTags: life death sincerity effort regrets fragile
Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.
Billy GrahamTags: christianity salvation sincerity graham billy
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
José SaramagoTags: sincerity regret regrets
Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no sè cuánto recuerdo y cuánto es producto de mi imaginación;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro.
Isabel AllendeTags: sincerity imaginación verdad mentira
sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live
Mark LeidnerTags: sincerity irony pitchforks
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
Criss JamiTags: advice love heart spirit encouragement sincerity individual encourage discernment consideration self-examination pure examination rebuke constructive-criticism compelling demean demeaning
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