Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. |
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. |
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. |
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. |
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. |
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another |
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. |
Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. |
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. |