I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and... reaping what I did not sow?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust ...your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.... He must not be afraid to return again and... again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand--like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery--in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a P...resent nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life....... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to... suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They have thrown away her electric toothbrush, someone else slips The key into the lock of her safety-deposit box... At the Crocker-Anglo Bank; her seat at the cricket matches Is warmed by buttocks less delectable than hers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar... deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit... and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »