The world I knew has gone. This is tomorrow
The winter of 1789 was the hardest within living memory. No one, not even the old people of the district, had ever known anything like it. The cold weather set in early, and, coming on top of a bad ha...
The trouble is that goodness dies, and lies buried in the earth. Cleverness passes on and becomes degenerate.
The door from the kitchen opened, and the smell of Freada’s Chesterfield cigarettes
Thank God nobody knew who he was, and he did not have to talk, but the sense of oppression was with him just the same. He was aware of a feeling of acute dislike, almost of hatred, towards all these u...
Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, c...
No, and no again, he said. I tell you for the final time, I’ll not be a party to it. I’ll break with you now and forever, and put an end to the agreement. That’s murder you’d have me do, Mr. Merlyn; t...
Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the very knowledge that they belong to a past we have not known ourselves in...
La cuestión es que la vida hay que soportarla y vivirla. Lo complicado es cómo vivirla.
It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain.
It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own we...
In the animal kingdom a freak was a thing of abhorrence, at once hunted and destroyed, or driven out into the wilderness.
In fact, one of the first decrees passed, the day after the storming of the Tuileries, was an order giving every municipality throughout the country the right to arrest suspects on sight.
If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.
I would forget my own beating heart, my own trembling body, my own sense of inexpiable degradation. I got up and started to throw off my things. Then the door opened and Jake came into the cabin. I di...
I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same.
I loved you too much, wanted you too much, had for you too great a tenderness. Now all of this is like a twisted root in my heart, a deadly poison in my brain. You have made of me a madman. You fill m...
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
I am no traveller, you are my world.
Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive -- c...