Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have... read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask...s himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where prev...iously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the co...gnition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not... for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make o...f heaven an effective reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »