I ate and drank slowly as one should (cook fast, eat slowly) and without distractions such as (thank heavens) conversation or reading. Indeed eating is so pleasant one should even try to suppress thou...
He went away, bent double with the pains of remorse and regret and the inward biting of a love which had now no means of expression. He remembered now when it was useless how the Abbess had told him t...
Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision.
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
Como todavía no hablase, dije:—¿Podríamos ser felices?Honor dijo:—Esto no tiene nada que ver con la felicidad, nada en absoluto.Era cierto. Acepté la promesa de sus palabras. Dije:—No sé si sobrevivir...
But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts.
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.
All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That's so even between us - and how much more it's so where there are...
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
—Verá usted, todo empezó con unas cartas.—¿Cartas?—Si, los seres humanos deberían tener muchísimo más cuidado con las cartas. Son unas armas muy poderosas. Sin embargo, la gente las escribe en momento...
When the sun was set I might perhaps go to sleep. I never let myself sleep during the day. Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. The sun will not tolerate it. If he can he...
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)
Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into it...
Outsiders who see rules and not the love that runs through them are often too ready to label other people as 'prisoners'.
Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself had watched a young fox catching mice, an elegant newly minted fox, straight from the ha...
I have always attributed a great importance to eyes. How mysteriously expressive those damp orbs can be; the eyeball does not change and yet it is the window of the soul. And colour in eyes is, in its...
However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously...
Идеи приходят в голову отдельным личностям. В этом всегда была беда человечества