If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood... Violent, vivid, and of infinite possibility: That the sun and the moon broke over my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you have to have been desperately unhappy before you can play comedy, so that nothing can frighten you any more. And you can't... do tragedy before you know absolute happiness, because having known that, you are safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience wa...ves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders--now that we are become "men like gods." It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in ...it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining absolute power over... wives. But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken--and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few dis...cover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »