Book: Great expectations

People are possessed by vanity, born of sorrow, humility, repentance, shame - all the monstrous forms of vanity that, like a curse, weigh on us.

By shutting herself off from daylight, she shut herself off from immeasurably more; by becoming a recluse, she closed her heart to a thousand healing natural influences; completely lost in her lonely thoughts, she became damaged in her mind, as has always happened and will happen, and cannot help but be with anyone who dares to go against the instructions of the creator.

I adhere to the rule that one should not keep documents unnecessarily - you never know who might want to use them when.

London was already far behind when the day dawned, timid, tearful, trembling like a beggar - in tatters of clouds and patches of fog.

It was as if we had agreed to believe that our lives were spent in continuous fun, but we secretly realized the opposite. As far as I can judge, in this sense we were not an exception to the rule.

No person is suitable for the position of a trusted person.

They did approximately the same thing that, judging by the stories and books, these representatives of the law always do in such cases: they detained several people, obviously innocent; with a zeal that deserves better use, they developed theories that were clearly fantastic; and stubbornly fitted facts to their theories, instead of building theories based on facts.

-Who is closer to a person than himself?

My perception of the dogmas set forth in the catechism was also not clear; for example, I remember very well that promising to follow

Many times I have thought about the ability of a child’s soul to deeply harbor something out of fear, even if it is completely unreasonable.

I am what you made me. You have no one to praise and no one to reproach but yourself; your merit or your sin is what I am.

There was something positively terrible in her caresses and gentle looks. She reveled in the beauty of Estella, reveled in her every word, every movement and, looking at her, her trembling fingers seized everything with her lips, as if devouring a beautiful creature that she herself had brought up.

- Will you never learn to beware?
- What?
- Me.

I felt like she was playing with my heart simply because she liked it so much, not because it would be hard and painful for her to break it and throw it away.