It is true ... that animals are not cruel. They cannot be cruel; if we say that they are being cruel, we mean only that they are b...eing savage, whether to survive or simply to triumph. They cannot be cruel because they cannot associate themselves with the feelings of their victims, and even their own feelings are only those of enjoyment, if there is enjoyment at all, of their own power. A man is cruel, on the other hand, and is rightly said to be being cruel, when he is associating himself with the feelings of his victims, when he is enjoying, not only his own power, but the suffering of another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not building here a statue to erect at the town crossroads, or in a church or a public square.... This is for a nook in a lib...rary, and to amuse a neighbor, a relative, a friend, who may take pleasure in associating and conversing with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever more... closely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an ...important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and ...hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »