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Updated: June 26, 2025
A child likes to disturb everything he sees; he breaks, he shatters everything within his reach; he lays hold of a bird just as he would lay hold of a stone, and strangles it without knowing what he is doing. Why is this? At first view, philosophy would account for it on the ground of vices natural to us pride, the spirit of domination, self-love, the wickedness of mankind.
In the olden days, when the poisoner was in every palace, the Doge of Venice offered a reward for a crystal goblet that would break the moment a poison touched it. Perhaps the idea was suggested to the Prince because his soul already fulfilled the thought, for one drop of sin always shatters the cup of joy and wastes life's precious wine. How do events interpret this principle!
But don't you see how it shatters my every hope of her, my every ideal of her? And don't you see how my heart is pierced by the presence of that man in my father's house, the house that she abandoned and cast a shadow upon? How filled with bitter shame and anguish I am when I see him there, in that house, sacred to my grief and to my memories making love to my mother?"
I will say nothing of the lady of my heart except that I loved her passionately, and should have married her aye, and become an Englishman in fact, casting off my own, country if War had not blown my ignoble plans to shatters.
He hears the first peal of the storm, and echoes it in that abrupt 'now. The first burst of the judgment shatters dreams of innocence, and the cowering wretches see their sin by the lurid light. That discovery awaits every man whose heart has been 'divided. To the gazers and to himself masks drop, and the true character stands out with appalling clearness. What will that light show us to be?
Not words nor works, but only that which is formless endures, the vitality that is another name for change, the breath that fills and shatters the bubbles of good and evil, of beauty and deformity, of truth and untruth. No art is easy, least of all the art of letters. Apply the musical analogy once more to the instrument whereon literature performs its voluntaries.
"Yes, much better," I continued; "gunpowder only bursts things " "Pretty well that, Jeff, in the way of violence, isn't it?" "Yes, but nothing to dynamite, for while powder only bursts things, dynamite shatters them." "How very dreadful! What is dynamite?" "That is just what I am about to explain," said I. "You must know, then, that it is a compound."
Now if you have been born in the Five Towns and been blessed with the unique Five Towns mixture of sentimentality and solid sense, you don't flare up and stamp out of the house when a well-to-do and childless uncle shatters your life's dream. You dissemble. You piece the dream together again while your uncle is looking another way.
Upon inquiry we learned to our astonishment that they had been eating a species of the plant vulgarly known as toadstool. Its habitual use, however, completely shatters the nervous system, and its sale by Russian traders to the natives has consequently been made a penal offence by Russian law.
Scornful as spirit fallen, its own tormentor. And then all tears and anguish: Queen of Heaven, Sweet Saints, and Thou by mortal sorrows riven, Save me! oh, save me! Shall I die forgiven? And then Ah, God! But nay, it little matters Look at the wasted seeds that autumn scatters, The myriad germs that Nature shapes and shatters! If she had Well!
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