When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a ...bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our... point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whereas the child is chiefly playful and experimental, the adult focuses on specific and conscious experiences. He practices selec...tive inattention to the objects for which he has no immediate use and develops a kind of tunnel vision that helps him to move toward selected goals. This focusing on a limited range of experiences and goals is largely responsible for one's individual evolution and gives a deep and almost tragic significance to a statement made by Albert Camus in his novel La Chute: "Après un certain âge tout homme est responsable do son visage." An almost identical statement appears as the last entry in George Orwell's notebooks: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." There could not any more absolute affirmation of belief in personal responsibility for the quality of one's own life and character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but wil...l not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question:... Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... You could sit there with the stains on your shoes Of the fresh earth from your own baby's grave... And talk about your everyday concerns. You had stood the spade up against the wall Outside there in the entry, for I saw it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as an ...infidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution, ...the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single being ... which accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand, or... otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Adolescence, O Adolescence I wince before thine incandescence . . .... When anxious elders swarm about Crying "Where are you going?", thou answerest "Out," . . . Strewn! All is lost and nothing found Lord, how thou leavest things around! . . . Ah well, I must not carp and cavil I'll chew the spinach, spit out the gravel, Remembering how my heart has leapt At times when me thou didst accept Still, I'd like to be present, I must confess, When thine own adolescents adolesce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »