In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful...
FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief and sinful affair. Nothing is real.Except imagination~with a pinch of perception, and...
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and ...
Reform is not a period of retreat.
Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.
I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
Perhaps the most overpowering contrast [with the West] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who is distinct from Nature in a fundamental qualitative sense. The Chinese had notions of a supreme god in var...
King Leonidas: Spartans! Prepare for glory! Daxos: Glory? Have you gone mad? There is no glory to be had now! Only retreat, or surrender or death! King Leonidas: Well, that's an easy choice for us, Arcadian! Spartans never retreat! Spartans never sur...
The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
