Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, w...hich will not be taken away from her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha, your father told me something once, a long time ago, when I first started to work with him: In the war of science, many pe...ople must die before any victory can be won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was almost with the feeling of a rider who was wondering whether his horse would make the course that she regarded this body of... hers, which was not only divided from her brain by the necessity of keeping open that cool and dispassionate eye, but separated into compartments of its own. Martha had after all been provided with a map of her flesh by the "book", in which each area was marked by the name of a different physical sensation, so that her mind was anxiously aware, not only of a disconnected partner, a body, but of every part of it, which might or might not come up to scratch at any given occasion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind... spot was the victim. The victim showed no signs of life before being deprived of it. If anything, the corpse which had to be moved and handled before burial seemed more active than its biological predecessor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha: "What is Autumn?" Jan: "A second spring, where the leaves imitate the flowers. Maybe it would be so too with human beings ...that you would see bloom if only you helped them with your patience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, I have no thoughts about anything, even less am I feeling rebellious. That is the punishment, Martha, and I suppose that there... comes an hour when all murderers are like me, emptied from the inside, sterile, without any possible future. That is why they are eliminated, they are no longer good for anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women of the tradition to which Alice and Martha belonged are prepared to discuss menstruation or pregnancy in the frankest of det...ail, but it is taboo to discuss sex, notwithstanding the show of frankness the subject is surrounded with. It follows that they get their information about how other women react sexually from their men, a system which has its disadvantages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no healt...h to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »