"Elective Affinities" Quotes
A married couple's lives are disrupted when they become entangled in a web of desire and infidelity with their visitors.
classics | 320 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
We are so constituted that we can never receive from without that which we do not possess within.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and only very little from a state of things.
The day has eyes; the night has ears.
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
We know nothing of the trials of others, and the sorrows which sometimes seem to us so simple are the most difficult to bear.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
