Люди обычно имеют о себе совершенно искаженное представление. По-настоящему человек проявляется в долгой цепи дел, а не в кратком перечне самотолкования.
A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'l...
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...
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...
Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.''Yours is a melanch...
—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,...
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you...
I am beginning to ramble. It is evening. The sea is golden, speckled with white points of light, lapping with a sort of mechanical self-satisfaction under a pale green sky. How huge it is, how empty,...
Les esprits aiment la nuit, qui sait plus qu’une femme donner une âme à toutes choses.
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.
The exercise of power is a dangerous delight.
The lover readily imagines that he and his mistress are one. He feels he has love enough for both and that his loving will can swathe the two of them together like twin nuts in a shell. But what one l...
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first sig...
There are special nightmares for the daytime sleeper: little nervous dreams tossed into some brief restless moments of unconsciousness and breaking through the surface of the mind to become confused a...
Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.
Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpecte...
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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