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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
Beware of Pity (1939)
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.
The Struggle with the Demon [Der Kampf mit dem Daemon (1929)
People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities.
Beware of Pity (1939)
A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.
Beware of Pity (1939)
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)
The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money.
Beware of Pity (1939)
A doctor should never try to cure the incurable.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The word 'service' comes from serving, and serving means being dependent.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Inevitably, in the secret chemistry of the emotions the feeling of pity for a sick person is imperceptibly bound up with tenderness.
Beware of Pity (1939)
After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.
Beware of Pity (1939)