—No niegas que hay una causalidad… —dijo Morgan que estaba decidida a no enfadarse con él. Pero deseaba de todo corazón que se marchara.Julius se sentó en uno de los sillones, quitó un cojín y se puso...
There are mysterious agencies of the human mind which, like roving gases, travel the world, causing pain and mutilation, without their owners having any full awareness, or even any awareness at all, o...
It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.
How absolute the knave is!
Existentialism, in both its Continental and its Anglo-Saxon versions, is an attempt to solve the problem without really facing it: to solve it by attributing to the individual an empty, lonely freedom...
But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.
I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')
Εγώ δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω πως είναι δυνατό να είναι κανείς καλλιτέχνης και να μην προσπαθεί συνεχώς να γίνει τέλειος.
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
The painter and the writer are not just copyists or even illusionists, but through some deeper vision of their subject-matter may become privileged truth tellers.
The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts of God. Now he had been dissolved into his thoughts which are beyond our c...
Bradley, I wish I’d understood that stuff you spouted about Hamlet.Forget it. No high theory about Shakespeare is any good, not because he’s so divine but because he’s so human. Even great art is jumb...
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Today there is a pleasant very light haze over the whole sky, and the sea has a misleadingly docile silvered look, as if the substantial wavelets were determined to stroke the rocks as hard as they co...
I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy.
He dreamt...he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really...