There isn’t one kind of happiness, there’s all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.
It was defeat, but defeat is less unwelcome when you are tired.
Let’s say that matters hadn’t gone quite right with you, I mean personal matters, would you be able to find words to say exactly what was wrong?’ ‘I’m afraid so, yes, I would.’ ‘That might be useful,...
Understanding makes the mind lazy.
Annie - although she also knew that those who don't speak have to pay it off in thinking - was resolved on silence. Whatever happened, and after all she was obliged to see Mr brooks two or three times...
It’s a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don’t intend to retreat.
Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.
She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea and never look at it for weeks on end.
La antigüedad no es lo mismo que el interés histórico —dijo—. De lo contrario, nosotros dos seríamos más interesantes de lo que somos.
Not to succeed in one thing is to fail in all.’ Far more frightening than any poltergeist is the spectre of loneliness in old age.
—No debo preocuparme —dijo ella—. Mientras hay vida, hay esperanza.—Qué idea tan terrible
. . in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a diff...
But he also saw himself as a geognost, a natural scientist, who, as he put it, had come ‘to an entirely new land, and dark stars’. The mining industry, it seemed to him, was not a science, but an art.
He said, aloud, 'The external world is the world of shadows. It throws its shadows into the kingdom of light. How different they will appear when this darkness is gone and the shadow-body has passed a...
Would you consider what I call the inner eye which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it or expect it – would you consider the inner eye as one of the sensory nerves?
Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.''I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.
En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.
I’m afraid I’m not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.’ ‘Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they’ll adapt little by little.
All Fitzgerald’s books are the product of maturity, reflection, the quickly touched depth of accumulated knowledge and long experience. Their creation reflects the new sense of opportunity that may co...
Llevar una oficina no es tan difícil, le dijo Just. Básicamente consiste en saber, en primer lugar, que entra; en segundo lugar, qué queda pendiente; en tercer lugar, qué asuntos han sido gestionados...
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