Bobby @stripeovercheck

hmm? Joined January 2018

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

21 hours ago

"Like many intellectuals, he could not say simple things simply." - p. 458

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"We do not know where to find what we seek; and often we avoid for a long time the very place to which others, for other reasons, invite us, not knowing that it is the very spot where we could meet the one who is in our thoughts." - p. 423

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

2 weeks ago

"The most exclusive love for any person is always love for something else." - p. 413

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

3 weeks ago

"I was trapped in the present…my past had ceased to project in front of me that shadow of itself which we call our future; seeing the purpose of my life not in any past dreams coming true but in the simple bliss of the passing moment, I could see no further than that moment."

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

4 weeks ago

"For a pleasure divested of *imagination* is a pleasure reduced to itself, to **nothing**." - p. 376

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

"His sorrow had the effect of convincing him that he was the one at fault." - p. 366

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

"However, at least for a time you have youth, and youth is always irresistible. Moreover, young man, it is the height of stupidity to think there is something ridiculous or reprehensible in feelings one does not share." - p. 346

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

"The most perfect of persons has a particular fault, which gives rise to rage or shock." - p. 321

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

"'Whatever you fail to learn from us today you will never learn. If you let us fall by this wayside where we stood striving to reach you, a whole part of your self which we brought for you will return for ever to nothing.'" - p. 298 - 299

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

Deeper the reminiscence, greater the regrets

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

“…Beauty in this world is ever anything other than the makeweight which our imagination, overwrought by *regret*, adds to a fragmentary and fleeting passer-by.” - p. 292

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

a month ago

Each outing never ceases to manifest this inexplicable sense of weariness—does it merely come from the literal physical exertions expended? Or is it from some form of a mental exhaustion that each second calls for?

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

2 months ago

"She took such pleasure in any trouble that spared me trouble, such delight in a moment of rest and peace for my weary limbs..." - p. 247

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

2 months ago

? next few weeks done onward to next mind I go

Bobby @stripeovercheck

3 months ago

? next few weeks done onward to next mind I go

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

2 months ago

"Sunrises are a feature of long-train journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers with boats straining forward but making no progress." - p. 233

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Bobby @stripeovercheck

2 months ago

"Habit weakens all things; but the things which are best at reminding us of a person are those which, because they were *insignificant*, we have forgotten and which have therefore lost none of their power." - p. 222