“I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensMomentsDreamRealityWonderPossibilityFoolLimitsGiving UpShould HaveOneselfRelativeCosmicNow And ThenDeliciousDeprivedExquisiteShould Have BeenVacuumsStretchingLatentCerebralFlatulence Book:Her Brothers Her Journal Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.” MomentsLossTrialsImmenseVulgarRefinedRefinementRobustSustainingVulgarityReedsExpletivesVulgarity Is Book:Her Brothers Her Journal Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape” MomentsSeemsLyingFailureLuckPosterityRight MomentSuccess Or FailureSeizing Book:Her Brothers Her Journal Source: Her Brothers Her Journal