To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could ho...
Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.
At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-...
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
Press on, regardless.
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you...
By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.
I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men l...
I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate sel...
I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but...
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.
It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.
It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.
If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.
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