Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
AGNES REPPLIERThe pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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