Othmar, by Ouida, Volumen1 |
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Página 15 - Why, then, do women usually commit the error of surfeiting him ? For I agree with you that a surfeit is fatal.' ' Because most women cannot be brought to understand that too much of themselves may bring about a wayward wish to have none of them. They call this natural and inevitable reaction ingratitude and inconstancy, but it is nothing of the kind ; it is only human nature.
Página 116 - ... of Melville told him he had committed an imprudence. ' Jean Berarde,' he continued, ' of course, abhors priests, and would have a general massacre of the Church. But I chanced to do him a service, as I said, some time ago, and so he allows me now and then to go and sit under his big olives and talk to the child, and even, grudgingly, lets her go to Mass now and then. His past is written clearly enough in the history of Savoy, but he either does not know or does not care anything about his descent....
Página 9 - I do not think any love is likely to last which is not based on intellectual sympathy. When the mind is interested and contented, it does not tire half so fast as the eyes or the passions. In any very great love there is at the commencement a delighted sense of meeting something long sought, some supplement of ourselves long desired in vain. When this pleasure is based on the charm of some mind wholly akin to our own, and filled for us with everrenewing well-springs of the intellect, there is really...
Página 9 - We have our own ideal, which we temporarily place in the person, and clothe with the likeness, of whoever is fortunate enough to resemble it superficially enough to delude us, unconsciously, into doing so. You remember the hackneyed saying of the philosopher about the real John — the John as he thinks himself to be, and the John as others imagine him : it is never the real John that is loved ; always an imaginary one built up out of the fancies of those in love with him.' ' That is fancy, your...
Página 222 - ... pyra from wild woods, she was unconscious of it. The whole scene was enchantment to her eyes. Her natural sense of the beauties of form and of colour was at once soothed and excited by the beauty of these chambers, which had all the subdued glow of old jewels. It was still daylight, but rose-shaded lamps were burning there, and shed a mellow hue over all the brilliant colours.
Página 12 - No, the first is sympathy and the second is happiness.' ' That is very commonplace. Its chief characteristic appears to me to be an extremely rapid transition from a state of imbecile adoration to a state of irritable fatigue. I speak from the masculine point of view.
Página 23 - How is that to be explained ? ' ' The contradictions of human nature will usually suffice to explain everything.' ' But there may be another explanation also ; the one who is least loved is the least cloyed, and the most apprehensive of alteration.' ' Love is best worked with egotism, as gold is worked with alloy.