Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
In the CLOUD, reflections mirror reflections, cutting out the object and leaving only infinite emptiness.
How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken
I buried my father in my heart. Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who won’t drink milk, little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night, little clock spring newly wet in the fire, little grape, parent to the future wine, a son the fruit ...
No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.
Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.
One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly compli...
Anyway, what does "wrong" mean? Who decides what's wrong and what's right?
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
When I’m with you, even my past seems like a bad dream,” he says. “I’ve sat on this hill a hundred times, and all I used to see were lights that represented places where I wasn’t wanted, where I never belonged. Now, when you aren’t with m...
One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride
In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.
The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildf...
Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number ...
We work it out, or live it out.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.
Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves...