I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. A...
I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
—Vives en un estado ilusorio. La conciencia humana común es un velo ilusorio. Nuestra ilusión principal es el concepto que tenemos de nosotros mismos, de nuestra importancia que no ha de ser violada,...
Statements made by distant church bells remind me it is Sunday. Today the sky has become cloudy. I have been watching the clouds and it occurs to me that I have never done this in my life before, simp...
Sometimes he would have liked to pray, but what is prayer if there is nobody there?
Marian was suddenly overcome by an appalling crippling panic. She was very frightened at the idea of arriving. But it was more than that. She feared the rocks and the cliffs and the grotesque dolmen a...
If only he could be loved by somebody new.
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...
Goodness appears to be both rare and hard to picture. It is perhaps most convincingly met with in simple people - inarticulate, unselfish mothers of large families - but these cases are also the least...
But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn’t. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance
If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a lie can enlig...
Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?'Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of the...
Люди обычно имеют о себе совершенно искаженное представление. По-настоящему человек проявляется в долгой цепи дел, а не в кратком перечне самотолкования.
Δεν είναι παραφροσύνη να συγκεντρώνει κανείς την προσοχή του αποκλειστικά σ’ ένα πρόσωπο, να στερεί τον υπόλοιπο κόσμο απ’ οποιαδήποτε σημασία, να μην έχει σκέψεις, αισθήματα ή ύπαρξη παρά μόνο σε σχέ...
Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her. She had a slight cast in one eye which gives her gaze a str...
She could have a good career. She could be secretary to some interesting man.''I don't want her to be secretary to some interesting man,' said Mor, 'I want her to be an interesting woman and have some...