Personal journalPessimism (or rather what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.Thomas Hardy1902★ 6.0
Personal journalThough a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.Thomas Hardy1871★ 5.2
Novel · Spy novel · SpyWe have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean?John le CarreThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold · 1963★ 5.2
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