What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and su...

Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer.

The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of o...

May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around y...

I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of...

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

I blink back the threat of tears, swiped at my nose and narrowed my eyes. Listen to me, you two bags of monkey shit, I yelled. I am not in a good mood. My car keeps stalling. The day before yesterday...

Gravity might just be the manifestation of other forces---not a force itself, but the peripheral result of something else...So if gravity were an emergent force, It would mean that gravity isn't the c...

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, a...

At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody. Shoot, I said, startled out of my misery, you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whol...

Antik dönemde filozoflar,insanın mutlu olabilmesi için hangi maddi koşulların gerekli hangilerinin gereksiz olduğu konusunda ateşli tartışmalar girmişlerdir.Örneğin Epikür, insana yalnızca yemek ve ba...

Vers libre, (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.

Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible.

The influence of the Pre-Raphaelites was felt less through their paintings than through a book, The Poems of Tennyson, edited by Moxon and wonderfully illustrated by Rossetti and Millais. The influenc...

Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic neces...

'Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat. It's uh k...

Echo, ¿cómo crees que te dejaría? ¿Cómo puedes dudar de lo que siento? —Porque me viste enloquecer. Me viste casi volverme loca.— Te vi luchar contra el peor recuerdo de tu vida y te vi ganar. No te e...

You wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

O kadın şimdi kendini nasıl hissediyor?- O kadın kendini kaybolmuş hissediyor. Kaybolmuş ve ihanete uğramış...... Ne önerirdiniz o kadına? diye fısıldıyor Anna. Belki de ilk kez birinden öğüt istiyor;...

Eh bien, monsieur le naturaliste, demanda le Canadien d’un ton légèrement goguenard, et cette Méditerranée?- Nous flottons à sa surface, ami Ned.- Hein! Fit Conseil, cette nuit même?...- Oui, cette nu...