She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.
He ordered a cup of tea and two biscuits for five pence and thought of nothing.—Oh, but that’s impossible.—It’s not possible to think of nothing. Certainly it was unprofessional of Fred, who was paid...
Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.
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.
Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.
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,...
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...
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...
. . 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...
La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado
It’s a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don’t intend to retreat.
Igual que seguía considerando que la gravedad es una fuerza que atrae las cosas hacia sí, y no una simple cuestión que se encarga de las que menos resistencia opongan a ella, estaba segura de que el c...
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.
—No debo preocuparme —dijo ella—. Mientras hay vida, hay esperanza.—Qué idea tan terrible
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.
Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.
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.