I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre apes the profound truth that we are extended bei...
But whatever she was I loved her and was committed to her and had always been, here and out beyond the stars, those stars behind stars behind stars which I had seen that night when I lay on the rocks...
And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.
Los hombres adultos manifiestan la misma facilidad para hacer suposiciones metafísicas completamente absurdas que ellos encuentran consoladoras. Por ejemplo, la suposición de que el bien es reluciente...
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Rosina had the fierce charm of the rather nasty girl in the fairy-tale who fails to get the prince, but is more interesting than the girl who does, and has better lines too.
I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours...
I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.
How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.
I shall not attempt here to describe my marriage. Some impression of it will doubtless emerge. For the present story, its general nature rather than its detail is important. It was not a success. At f...
You seem to think the past is unreal, a pit full of ghosts. But to me the past is in some ways the most real thing of all, and loyalty to it the most important thing of all.
The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world in the light of a virtuous consciousness. T...
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.
It's not so easy.What isn't?To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing.
I said, Your brother is in bed with my wife. I added, I just took them up some wine in bed.