Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without even ...the beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lined with lindens of medium size with hanging droplets of rain distributed among their intricate black twigs according to the fut...ure arrangement of leaves (tomorrow each drop would contain a green pupil); complete with a smooth tarred surface some thirty feet across and variegated sidewalks (hand-built, and flattering to the feet), it rose at a barely perceptible angle, beginning with a post office and ending with a church, like an epistolary novel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal ...of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[F]rankly ... it was perfectly true that I had, for over a year, expressed the opinion that Indo-China should not go back to Franc...e but that it should be administered by an international trusteeship. France has had the country ... for nearly one hundred years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning.... France has milked it for one hundred years. The people of Indo-China are entitled to something better than that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »