Author of quotes: Charles Dickens

I did a bad thing: I praised her, gave her gifts, instructed her, was always with her as a warning and a clear example, and now I stole her heart and put a piece of ice in its place.

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.

The social system is based on personal gain. Always and in everything you need to rely on a person’s inherent desire for personal gain. This is the only strong support. This is how we are created by nature. This dogma was instilled in me since childhood.

- I beg your pardon, but I don’t want to be too dear to you. This comes first. when I become important to someone, it usually means that they are going to cheat me.

Such a passionate reproach sounded in her voice that he felt a prick in the place where the heart should have been, and there was only a nest of scrambled eggs, while the birds of the air could have lived there if he had not dispersed them with his whistle.