Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.


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ELIZABETH GILBERT
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN
I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo...
ELIZABETH WEIN
Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her...
ELIZABETH SCOTT
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa...
ELIZABETH WILSON
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY
When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN