The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Inno...
It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've...
It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.
In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bru...
We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the...
The rival you both share is myself. I do not wish to marry ... First, because my past habituated me to loneliness. I had always thought I hated it. And now I have found I treasure it. I do not want to...
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It
I remember later he said (Professor Higgins again), you don’t really stand a dog’s chance anyhow. You’re too pretty. The art of love’s your line: not the love of art.
German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion – entirely appropriate.
Но он настолько ординарен, что это делает его неординарным.
Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.
The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attrac...
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful...
I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home, totally nourished; but in a situation in which it was infinitely significant.