Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Singing is of course a form of aggression.
The next day round about ten o'clock I was walking down Welbeck Street. I was in a bad temper. By daylight the whole project seemed very much less attractive. I felt that to be snubbed by a film star...
The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false.
The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.
The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man.
The whole extraordinary business was over. And I was back where I belonged, where my childhood had condemned me to be, alone, out in the cold without a coat.
This talk of love means very little. Love is not a feeling. It can be tested. Love is action, it is silence. It's not the emotional straining and scheming for possession that you used to think it was.
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures,...
To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.
Youth is a marvelous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when...
Sozzled
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think...
White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
Άκουγα τη σιωπή του διαμερίσματος στη μέση του θορύβου του Λονδίνου. Η ώρα περνούσε. Περίμενα. Όντας σκλάβος σου, τι άλλο να κάνω από το να περιμένω τις ώρες και τις ευκαιρίες της διάθεσής σου; Δεν έχ...
Υπέφερα από την ανησυχία που έχουν εκείνοι που γρήγορα καταλαβαίνουν πως δεν διαθέτουν τη μόρφωση που θα τους έπρεπε.
Наверно, именно эта маленькая область бесспорных обязательств, которые берет на себя человек, и есть его спасение, спасение от звериной, эгоцентрической ночи, находящейся в непосредственной близости о...
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes
And do stop sneezing. It annoys me so much when people sneeze.
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