I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing every day. My friends pursued their course with uneventfulness; they had no longer any surprises for me, and when I met them I k...
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize...
I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, nor how much goodness in the reprobate.
I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If this were the place I could write a very neat little guide to enable...
I am a man blessed with vivid senses, and I have indulged them with all my soul. I have to pay the penalty now, and I am ready to pay.
How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.
Heaven knows, I'm the easiest woman in the world to get on with, but I will not be bullied by any man. After all, I have my self-respect to think of.
He was interested in the human side of that struggle to express something which was so obscure in the man's mind that he was become morbid and querulous. Philip felt vaguely that he himself was himsel...
El arte es la naturaleza vista a traves de una personalidad
But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and various; there were tears and laughter, happiness and woe; it was tedious and inte...
The human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing...
Era muito simples o que ele ensinava.Dizia que somos maiores do que pensamos, e que a sabedoria é o caminho da liberdade. Para nos salvarmos não é necessário a pessoa retirar-se do Mundo, mas apenas r...
Мне непонятно, почему многих людей мысль о самоубийстве приводит в ужас. Говорить, что это трусость, — нелепо. Если человек сам уходит из жизни, когда в жизни его не ждет ничего, кроме боли и горя, я...
Малко здрав разум, малко търпимост, малко чувство за хумор и ти ще откриеш, че се чувстваш много удобно на тази планета.
The hopes that had been cherished there, the bright visions of the future, the flaming passion of youth; the regrets, the disillusion, the weariness, the resignation; so much had been felt in that roo...
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It
A novel cannot be made of facts alone; in themselves they are dead things.
The first time he talked in that way he said something that I've never forgotten, because it horrified me; he said that the world isn't a creation, for out of nothing nothing comes, but a manifestatio...
I'm sure I'm very grateful to you, Philip. I'm very much flattered at your proposal.''Oh, don't talk rot. You will marry me, won't you?''D'you think we should be happy?''No. But what does that matter?
I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose she didn't care what became of her and flung herself into the horrible degradation of drink and promi...