#Mark twain

[key-cat]

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

許しとは、踏みにじられたスミレの花が、自分を踏みにじったかかとに放つ香りである。

Mark Twain マーク・トウェイン　

[perfectfeelings]

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

[perfectquote]

If you tell the truth, you won't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

[thoughtkick]

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain

[citizenscreen]

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens today in 1835 #botd

[catsbeaversandducks]

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." (Mark Twain)

[without-ado]

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. —Mark Twain

[sivavakkiyar]

[kafkasapartment]

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion. - Mark Twain

[pilferingapples]

Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villany away in one swift tidal-wave of blood--one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell.  There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

(every time we come to LM 1.1.10, I think about this quote )

[dabiconcordia]

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ― Mark Twain

[perfectfeelings]

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why.

Mark Twain

[perfectquote]

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

[thoughtkick]

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

[thehopefulquotes]

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

[araekniarchive]

eve, after the fall (auguste rodin; bronze, 1883)

Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve // Hozier, From Eden // Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // Eagles, The Last Resort // Anne Sexton, Words for Dr. Y