What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
Agnes RepplierIt takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
Agnes RepplierScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
Agnes RepplierDiaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
Agnes Repplier