There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are a...ll sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast;... But remember that luxury's prodigal hand Keeps the furnace of toil in blast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced ...my laughter holy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, a...t least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by ...an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can forget what I said about buying the gun. You're a tenderfoot. Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picket Wire-...-next to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You see, male man was made with five strong senses to gather the truth of things and his mind is a threshing floor to clean his tr...uth in. This is often an unhappy thing, for man sees himself as he really is. Thus he is made very miserable. But he does not destroy himself because the female man was made with squint eyes so that she sees only those things which please her. And her threshing floor is cramped and cluttered. She cannot separate the wheat from the chaff. But she achieves a harvest that makes her happy. When she sees man fleeing from her own dish and he is blindly and divinely happy. Ah, yes, the female companion of man has the gift of the soothing-balm of lies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive for...m of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it.... Man believes th...at the world itself is filled with beauty--he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world--alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »