Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'
I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me.
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
