Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pe...
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his ma...
America has swerved from its ethical center.
But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of ...
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.
[after Jack swerves off the road and crashes the car into a tree] Miles Raymond: What the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK?
you are the builder of your future, the creator of your destiny. Therefore, do not swerve from the path of truth........
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
[Driving down the railroad tracks toward an approaching train] Phil: I'm betting he's going to swerve first.
The quintessential emblem of religion and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core is the sacrifice of a child by a parent. Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a sacrifice, and some have actually m...
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
Marwood: [wakes up in the back seat of the car, which is moving along the motorway] What's going on? Withnail: I'm making time. [swerves through motorway traffic, dangerously]
There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to the fulness of its growth. This is a common mistake on the part of those who have never felt love's true bonds. Once in...
