The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make them romantic, not the other way around?___arling, what do you mean?___here wasn__ a person there who enjoyed it,_ she said, her voice lifeless, __r who thought or felt anything at all. They moved about, and they said the same dull things they say anywhere. I suppose they thought the lights would make it brilliant.___arling, you take everything too seriously. One is not supposed to be intellectual at a ball. One is simply supposed to be gay.___ow? By being stupid?
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No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.___ut it__ true...I am, in the sense they mean__nly have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?___henever anyone accuses some person of being __nfeeling,_ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .__o feel_ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being __nfeeling,_ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .__o feel_ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state __ndifference, because she could not regard those who reached it, as human any longer.
...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man__ foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...
When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.