I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.
I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.
I will think of you every day. All the time. If ever you should think of me and wonder what I'm doing, I'm thinking of you. That's all I'll be doing. Nothing else.
I've met men I would trust in the mouth of hell. Byrne or Douglas. I would trust them to breathe for me, to pump my blood with their hearts.Did you love them best? Would they be the ones you'd choose?...
In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.
It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps the isolated deeds of virtue at which people marveled in later life were...
It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer’s billiard table.
It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
She was so beautiful I had to move away.
So the Bible is not so sad in the end?’ ‘Yes, it is the saddest book in the world. We are asked to believe that God has played an infantile trick on us: he has made himself unobservable, as an eternal...
Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of...
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
The more I heard, the less I knew.
The physical shock took away the pain of being.
There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm stil...
Under the treaty of Sevres in 1920 Greece had been given Smyrna, and by 1922 the Greek army was trying to push its way up the Aegean coast. The Turks, however, had found a leader in Mustafa Kemal (Kem...
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