In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
There is no slave, after all, like a wife. . . Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate. . . Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.
Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
One cannot be successful on visible figures alone. . . the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.
In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.
This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me. . . and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.