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- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
- The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in…
- All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
- There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the…
- We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
- Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex…
- I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
- Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
- The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into…
- Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
- Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be…
- The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall…
- emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world…
- we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk…
- Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold…
- As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often…
- For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the…
- To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that…
- We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in…
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