"Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn."

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Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.101, Vintage

Kevin Brockmeier

#Virginia Quotes #Vices Quotes #Forget Quotes

“The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.”

Source : Mona Caird, Margaret Morganroth Gullette (1894). “The Daughters of Danaus”, p.490, Feminist Press at CUNY
“How a little love and good company improves a woman.”
“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”
“Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This is a novel [Candid] which has narratives within narratives, such as when CunÃ©gonde recounts her story.”
“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
“To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.”
“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

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