human
We need to feel that there is someone who believes in us, in our good faith, in our good will, one who will not judge according to outward success or failure. Remember, he said,
gpt
The worst thing about the life of you married people, said Valeria,
human
Until you discovered this by personal inconvenience, you always scolded me for my disposition to jeer at the domestic scheme.
gpt
It _is_ a little geometrical,
human
Geometrical! It is like a gigantic ordnance map palmed off on one instead of a real landscape.
gpt
Come now, to be just, say an Italian garden.
human
That flatters it, but the simile will do. The eye sees to the end of every path, and knows that it leads to nothing.
gpt
Ah! dear Hadria, but all the pathways of the world have that very same goal.
human
At least some of them have the good taste to wind a little, and thus disguise the fact. And think of the wild flowers one may gather by the wayside in some forest track, or among the mountain passes; but in these prim alleys what natural thing can one know? Brain and heart grow tame and clipped to match the hedges, or take on grotesque shapes----
gpt
That one must guard against.
human
Oh, I am sick of guarding against things. To be always warding off evil, is an evil in itself. Better let it come.
gpt
One knows how twirling round in a circle makes one giddy, or following the same path stupefies. How does the polar bear feel, I wonder, after he has walked up and down in his cage for years and years?
human
Used to it, I imagine,
gpt
But before he gets used to it, that is the bad time. And then it is all so confusing----