…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.
Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
My shadow follows me during the day, and then surrounds me at night as it clones itself into complete darkness. Now that’s self-love.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
