None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.
Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain degree of unhappiness; anything beyond it destroys him or leaves him cold. There are situations in which fear and hope become one and the same, cancel one another out, and lose themselves in a d...
. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.
But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.
Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
