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Updated: June 27, 2025
From very childhood she had felt that the essence of her own goodness, the essence of her duty in life, was the doing of 'good' to others; from very childhood she had never doubted that she was in a position to do this, and that those to whom she did good, although they might kick against it as inconvenient, must admit that it WAS their 'good. The thought: 'They don't admit that I am superior! had never even occurred to her, so completely was she unselfconscious, in her convinced superiority.
His consciousness of his own knowledge or memory would seem to belong to a period, so to speak, of twilight between the thick darkness of ignorance and the brilliancy of perfect knowledge; as colour which vanishes with extremes of light or of shade. Perfect ignorance and perfect knowledge are alike unselfconscious. The above holds good even more noticeably in respect of reading.
Again, it has been often and very truly said that it is not the conscious and self-styled sceptic, as Shelley, for example, who is the true unbeliever. Such a man as Shelley will, as indeed his life abundantly proves, have more in common than not with the true unselfconscious believer.
By courage and kindness modern man exists, warmed by the glow of the great human fellowship. He has re-discovered the old Greek saying: "God is the helping of man by man"; has found out in his unselfconscious way that if he does not help himself, and help his fellows, he cannot reach that inner peace which satisfies. To do his bit, and to be kind!
For once Bobby forgot the fact of his love, and its delicious pains, and its need for something which he could not place, in the unselfconscious joy of intimate communion. He drew close to Celia in spirit; and his whole being expanded to a glow that warmed him through and through. The westering sun surprised them with the lateness of the hour. At the hotel gate Celia left him.
Possibly the lips of his well-cut mouth were a trifle too firmly set to be unselfconscious. And his broad forehead lacked serenity. There was a furrow between the eyes. It was with the eyes she was most familiar. They were gray, brilliant, piercing, wide apart and deeply set.
With him, she was still in the stage of unsentimental frankness that pierced ruthlessly to what she conceived to be the realities; and because she was as unselfconscious as a tree, she was entirely indifferent to the fact that Johnny was a boy and she was a girl, Johnny, however, nearsighted and in enormous shell-rimmed spectacles, and still inarticulate, was quite aware of it; more definitely so every week, for he saw her on Saturdays and Sundays.
They walk round and round, or sit over their coffee, and would be so happy and unselfconscious and clinging were it not for the other English here. The fine republicanism of Venice is nowhere so apparent as on band nights. Every type of Venetian is seen in the Square, save one the gondolier.
"I met him while I was with your mother, and I thought it a pity we didn't produce more men like him over here simple, unselfconscious men, contented to be themselves and to do the duty that is nearest them." "Anglomaniac!" Imogen smiled, sugaring her second cup of tea. Mrs. Wake flushed slightly. "Because I see the good qualities of another country?"
The joy of the warm earth, of the sunshine glinting on the slipping ripples of the river and sifting through the cream-white blossoms of the locust which reared its sheltering branches over their heads; the joy of mating insects and birds, of the whole exulting, creating universe! the unselfconscious, irresponsible, wholly beautiful Joy of passion which is without apprehension or humor.
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