"Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay."

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Source : Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”

Octave Mirbeau

#Life Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Should Quotes

“Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.”
“If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.”
“James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!”
“The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.”
“Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”
“Beware of the man who has no enemies.”
“I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.”
“The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.”

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