Each day and the living of it has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always she had to admit interesting.
Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.
Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit...
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day. Fragile she may have been, living on the edge of psychic disturbance, but thi...
In the country of pain we are each alone.
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