Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Inf...
In the old wild days of the world there was a king of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power.
I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it.
I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe; God had created the world in less time than it took us to travel across America.
Everybody needed news. Everybody wanted news. News was known as ‘hot’. It was a society of conversation so that rumour and gossip passed quickly through the streets. At times of more than usual excite...
The great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page
Name for Manchester was Mamucio, after the
Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance
When the city was described as pagan, it was partly because no one living among such urban suffering could have much faith in a god who allowed cities such as London to flourish.
VANNBRUGGHE. But the bounds of the Mind are yet unknown: we form our Judgments too much on what has been done without knowing what might be done. Originals must soar into the region of Liberty.DYER....
Una de las grandes maldiciones del género humano es la de temer cuando no hay nada que temer, contestó. Este ánimo supersticioso y amigo de los presagios desarma los corazones de los hombres, ablanda...
There then followed a period of disturbance and danger. There were many lords in this land who longed to be king, and who were prepared to do battle for the crown of England. So Merlin visited the Arc...
The fall of Venice was just a change in its historical identity. We cannot say that it was a disgrace or triumph, because we do not know who in the end is triumphant and who is disgraced.
The cure for tonsillitis was inspired. ‘Take a fat cat, skin it, draw out the guts and take the grease of a hedgehog and the fat of a bear … All this crumble small and stuff the cat, roast it whole an...
Sir it did not belong to me to examine the matter, since I knew full well that I should not be a judge of the matter for it belongs only to a judge to study illam Sacre Scripture clausam where Holy Jo...
None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble withhistory. It's the one thing we have to make up for ourselves.
I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a...
Glass is material sea.