The freedom that allows other freedons to exist
You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when t...
You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.
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.
Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.
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.
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.
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.
It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield -- that is something different.Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no l...
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.
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.
You use your life.
Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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.