A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the ...painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertaste ...of nothingness that nothing can erase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Ah lad, upon the road of life 'Tis best to dance with Chance's wife... And let the rains that come in time Erase the footprints of the crime."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited... from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach he...r? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibilit...y to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat and ...potatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »