...Those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.
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Zum Autor"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . There is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all."
"I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which came to an end without having ever found self-expression or return. It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood's days, for those days to come back to me!"
"Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
"Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau."
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."