Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early
paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked
lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.
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Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worse than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.
Peter WattsI am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.
Steve GoodierTag: cynicism trust cynical trustworthiness trusting depending
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
Edith WhartonTag: illusions cynicism idealism truths
If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.
Zoë HellerCynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.
Bryant McGillTag: progress cynicism bitterness obstacles
The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.
Bryant McGillTag: cynicism pride understand conscoiusness
I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again.
Find one lost sheep.
The angels rejoice.
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... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat
Terry PratchettTag: democracy cynicism drinking alcohol
Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic
James Branch CabellTag: cynicism death dead aesthetics
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