As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. |
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. |
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. |
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. |
Between the conception
and the creation between the emotion and the response Falls the shadow |
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. |
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. |
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. |
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. |
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. |
English saved my life. |
Exterminate all brutes |
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. |
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. |
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end |