Good-by, my book! Like mortal eyes, imagined ones must close some day. Onegin from his knees will rise--but his creator strolls aw...ay. And yet the ear cannot right now part with the music and allow the tale to fade; the chords of fate itself continue to vibrate; and no obstruction for the sage exists where I have put The End: the shadows of my world extend beyond the skyline of the page, blue as tomorrow's morning haze--nor does this terminate the phrase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants.... And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply... That liking; and approach so one the tother, Till either grew a portion of the other; Each styled by his end, The copy of his friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: a...n apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of children... and technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from on...e another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a proces...s. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bald little prompter shuts his book, as the light fades gently. The end, the end. They all go back to their everyday life (and... Clare goes back to her grave)Mbut the hero remains, for try as I may, I cannot get out of my part: Sebastian's mask clings to my face, the likeness will not be washed off. I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we are both someone whom neither of us knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »