Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the m...ask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a great...er victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With its frame of shaking curls all in disarray, earrings swinging,... make-up smudged by beads of sweat, eyes languid at the end of lovemaking, may the face of the slim girl who's riding on top of you protect you long. What's the use of Vishnu, Shiva, Skanda, and all those other gods?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern photographers can reduce bones to formlessness, and change a face of the most strange, exquisite and unfathomable beauty in...to the face of a clubwoman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the vagabond began To sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man.... Then, as he placed another lock upon the shapely head, With a fearful shriek, he leaped and fell across the picture--dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.... Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »