The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.
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The result will be something unutterably tedious.
George GissingHow I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.
George GissingI know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George GissingTag: reading books literature nose
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
George GissingFlippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
George GissingIt is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George GissingTag: relationships thought
Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?
George GissingPersistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George GissingTag: prophecy
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
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