As long as the sun rose each day, as long as they could behold it, there life was secure.
Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine that is, activity which could solve it, is seen as odious.Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats ha...
The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Stran...
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the...
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and j...
Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power...