Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a lit...tle (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air. It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint th...e world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you e...ncounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.... Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new hero-type favored by Aschenbach, and recurring in his books in a multiplicity of individual variants, had already been rem...arked upon at an early stage by a shrewd commentator, who had described his conception as that of "an intellectual and boyish manly virtue, that of a youth who clenches his teeth in proud shame and stands calmly on as the swords and spears pass through his body ... the figure of Saint Sebastian is the most perfect symbol if not of art in general, then certainly of the kind of art in question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a fig...ure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administr...ation to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each day I live in a glass room Unless I break it with the thrusting... Of my senses and pass through The splintered walls to the great landscape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky;... I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »