There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already...
So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.
If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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.
His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.
Dünya bir genellikse benim hep bir istisna kalacağımı buyuran bir ferman vardı sanki.
But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.
What you do blurs over what you did before.
You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win.
The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library.
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the univ...
That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.
Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.
She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She was so easy to hurt, to tease. And when she teased, it was li...
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. T...
It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to have known dust or cloud.