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...
Not that I will paint in my own way, live in my own way, speak in my own way—they don’t mind that. It even excites them. But what they can’t stand is that I hate them when they don’t behave in their o...
Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.
La urma urmei, ce era eu? Ce ma fortase conchis sa spun era foarte aproape de adevar: nu eram altceva decat suma numeroaselor mele esecuri. Jargonul freudian din timpul procesului ma facea sa zambesc,...
Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she h...
It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.
If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.
I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From everything I want to be.
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...
But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me
And the sky all wild, all free, all wind and air and space and stars.
A fost odată un tânăr prinț care credea în toate lucrurile, în afară de trei. Nu credea în prințese, nu credea în insule, nu credea în Dumnezeu. Împăratul, tatăl său, îi spusese că aceste lucruri nu e...
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
Its meaning is whatever reaction it provokes in the reader, and so far as I am concerned there is no given ‘right’ reaction.
If it makes you happier – I’m free.’ The rain came in sudden great swathes across the tree-tops and hit the windows and the roof; like spring rain, out of season. The bedroom air seemed full of unspok...
I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen.I think you may be.I smiled dubiously. Thank you.It is not meant as a compliment. Hazard makes you elect. You cannot elect yourself.
I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But nothing could have been less poetic that my seeing-through-all boredom w...
Humour is a manifestation of freedom. It is because there is freedom that there is smile.