Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.
I contemplated her, seeing her young bland face looking at me, now removed as if behind a gauze curtain. She quietly invited me to suffer. There was a great space now, a great silent hall in which thi...
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.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
—¿Por qué está mal robar?—Es cuestión de cómo se defina —dijo Julius.—¿Qué quiere usted decir?—Es una tautología. «Robar» es un concepto con un sentido peyorativo inevitable. Así, decir que robar está...
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.
She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short...
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like...
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...
Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit.
But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.
They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.
The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of...
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
There was a shadowy light, not exactly twilight, but an uncertain vivid yet hazy illumination, wherein people walked like spirits, bathed in light and not revealed.
You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!
To anyone who will take the trouble to become attached to her she will immediately give a devoted, generous, imaginative and completely uncapricious attention, which is still a calculated avoidance of...
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