Character: Edith Hope

Some (I know such people) the shadow of death precedes its onset: they lose hope, appetite, viability. They feel out the meaning of life, understand that lost or never achieved what we sought with all my heart, and cease to struggle. In the eyes of these people read, I took little from life, and this cannot be undone.

...It is difficult to maintain the tone of the company in which one appropriates the attention of all the others.

- In the highest degree erroneous, he continued after a pause, - to associate happiness with specific state and a specific person. Getting rid of this confusion, I discovered a very important secret.
- So tell me, for God's sake, what is it, - she said dispassionately. I always wanted to know how to live.
- It's very simple. If you do not put all the feelings into one thing, you can afford everything you want. To make decisions, to reconsider, to change plans. Disappear anxiety and desire to find out whether that other person is the desire whether it is or, alternatively, frustrated, upset, bored. If you're willing to do what you from early childhood, wean and excommunicated - merely to please himself, - drop out of reasons to continue to feel miserable.