“Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!” MenLoveLastsWorstDiseaseExposedLast TimeContagious Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)
“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!” IfsWritingHas BeensFeelingsLightHoursDarkMy OwnRoomsSuccessfulTeachingHavensSticksFingersPrisonerExposedClothingsPlatesElderlyDark RoomFaustBastille Author:Bret Harte