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There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.

He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how: but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him. They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. They would be alone, surrounded by darkness and silence: and in that moment of supreme tenderness he would be transfigured. He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment, he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.

Hell and night/Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.

There is no woman’s sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart

Pero, ¿cómo es que eso aún vive en tu mente? ¿Qué más ves en el oscuro fondo y abismo del tiempo? (Próspero)

…but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

we should never eat the liver of a polar bear because all the vitamin A in it could kill us.

Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again.

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.

I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it’s only a story, it becomes less frightening.

I really got to know her quite intimately. I don’t mean it was anything physical or anything- it wasn’t- but we saw each other all the time. You don’t always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

…a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the imagination which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the sensible. The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection. Aristotle’s entire system of philosophy rests upon his book of psychology and that, I think, rests on his statement that the same attribute cannot at the same time and in the same connexion belong to and not belong to the same subject. The first step in the direction of beauty is to understand the frame and scope of the imagination, to comprehend the act itself of esthetic apprehension.

How easy is it for the proper false In women’s waxen hearts to set their forms! Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, (30) For such as we are made of, such we be.

You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[…] What cares these roarers for the name of king?

From the dark horizon of my future a sort of slow, persistent breeze had been blowing toward me, all my life long, from the years that were to come. And on its way that breeze had leveled out all the ideas that people tried to foist on me in the equally unreal years I then was living through.

I don’t smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

أنا لست مغرما بمشاهدة المرضى.

Когда ты главный, тебе приходится думать и надо быть мудрым, в этом вся беда.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense that we believe – some people are smarter than others, some have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others – some people are more gifted beyond the normal scope of most men