From: Twenty-four Hours in London
By: Addison & Steele
It is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the World and be of no Character or Significancy in it.
From: He and I
By:Natalia Ginzburg
He always feels hot, I always feel cold.
From: Once A Tramp, Always...
By: M.F.K. Fisher
There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.
From: Against Joie de Vivre
By: Phillip Lopate
Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live.
From: The Crack-Up
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once.
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