We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop til...
Yes, these business people have great energy. There’s a question as to what’s burned to produce it and what things we can and can’t burn.
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Guys like you make life easy for some women.
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That's the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, 'I'm going to ma...
She sits and listens with crossed legs under the batik house-wrap she wears, with her heavy three-way-piled hair and cigarette at her mouth and refuses me - for the time being, anyway - the most impor...
This development is possibly related to the fact that so much of value has been absorbed by technology itself. It is good to electrify a primitive area. Civilization and even morality are implicit in...
Well, don't build me up so, and you won't have to tear me down.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides as no other generation of men has done, one should be abl...
Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.
Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas and peculiar ways. If you wanted to talk about a glass of water, you had to start...
Everyone was like the faces on a playing card, upside down either way.
Going up, Herzong found a bouquet of violets, dropped from the hand of a woman. Perhaps a bride. Little perfume remained in them, but they made him remember... These violets smelled to him like female...
Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would...
You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.
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