George Gissing Citas

• Para el hombre sano de cuerpo y sereno de mente no existe el mal tiempo; cada día tiene su belleza, y las tormentas que azotan la sangre no hacen sino hacerla latir con más vigor.

  George Gissing

  Courage, Men, Blood

  George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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• It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

  George Gissing

  Amor, Corazón, Ojo

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

  George Gissing

  Poverty, Bitterness, Curse

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• La vida es una gran farsa, y la ventaja de poseer sentido del humor es que permite desafiar al destino con la risa burlona.

  George Gissing

  Laughter, Fate, Farce

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic

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• The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

  George Gissing

  Mind, Growing, Calm

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• Have the courage of your desire.

  George Gissing

  Success, Courage, Bravery

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

  George Gissing

  Time, Money, Turns

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Winter, § 24, p. 287, 1903.

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• It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

  George Gissing

  Time, Children, Stress

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.248, The Floating Press

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Odio, Corazón, Hombres

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Las verdades de la vida no las descubrimos nosotros. En momentos imprevistos, alguna influencia benévola desciende sobre el alma, conmoviéndola con una emoción que, no sabemos cómo, la mente transmuta en pensamiento.

  George Gissing

  Truth, Honesty, Soul

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.148, The Floating Press

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• A cada hombre se le decreta: Vivirás solo. Felices los que piensan que han escapado a la suerte común; felices, mientras lo piensan.

  George Gissing

  Men, Solitude, Common

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

  George Gissing

  Pain, Causes, Speak

  George Gissing (2016). “The Unclassed”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

  George Gissing

  Happiness, Passing Moments, Passings

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

  George Gissing

  Cities, Growth, Pavement

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Comida, Abuela, Cocina

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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Food, Names

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• Uno de los momentos más brillantes de mi día es cuando, habiendo regresado un poco cansada de una caminata vespertina, cambio las botas por las pantuflas, el abrigo de calle por la chaqueta fácil, familiar y raída, y, en mi profundo y mullido sillón, espero la bandeja del té .... [¡Qué delicioso es el suave y penetrante olor que flota en mi estudio cuando aparece la tetera! ¡Qué agradable es después de un paseo bajo la fría lluvia!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

  George Gissing

  Acceptance, Compassion, Often Is

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?

  George Gissing

  Writing, Men, Nurse

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Conozco cada libro mío por su olor, y no tengo más que poner mi nariz
  entre las páginas para recordar todo tipo de cosas.

  George Gissing

  Libro, Lectura, Olfato

  George Gissing (2015). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.22, George Gissing

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• Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

  George Gissing

  Éxito, Hombres, Pensamiento

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

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• Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  George Gissing

  Intellectual, Vices, Hopeless

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.177, Booklassic

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• To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

  George Gissing

  Understanding, Tests, Capacity

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• Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

  George Gissing

  Humans, Creatures, Adapting

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