That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
The best wines take the longest to mature.
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the au...
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
The feeling that he would probably betray me. And I’ve always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure, two people of the same age setting out together, discovering together, growing together....
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand the...
Restless and walked down to the harbour. It was about eleven at night
Was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope—an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
What this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery.
Всесторонне подготовленный к провалу, я вступил в большую жизнь.
Მთელი ამ დროის განმავლობაში არ ვფიქრობდი, რომ სერიოზულად ვაპირებდი რაიმეს. ვიცი, რომ ეს უცნაურად ჟღერს, მაგრამ ნამდვილად ასე იყო. ჩემთვის ვიმეორებდი, რომ არასდროს ასეთ რამეს არ გავაკეთებდი, რომ ეს მხო...
Armastan elada täisverelist elu, armastan kõiki, kes lihtsalt ei istu ja jälgi.
I am Mrs. Poulteney. I have come to take up residence. Kindly inform your Master.His Infinitude has been informed of your decease, ma'am. His angels have already sung a Jubilate in celebration of the...
I hate beyond hate.
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through my being ther...
My only plea is that all artists have to range the full extent of their own lives freely. The rest of the world can censor and bury their private past. We cannot, and so have to remain partly green ti...
The lifeless sea was ruffled here and there by a lost zephyr, by a stippling shoal of sardines, dark ash-blue lines that snaked, broad then narrow, in slow motion across the shimmering mirageous surfa...
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard t...
The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe - so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.
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