My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fibre all over me to a delightful s...ensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness--if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it langour--but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibres of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two;... Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, then, stay here; but know, When thou hast stayed and done thy most,... A naked thinking heart that makes no show Is to a woman but a kind of ghost. How shall she know my heart; or, having none, Know thee for one? Practice may make her know some other part, But take my word, she doth not know a heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy...and you defeat them, then you must utterl...y destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more one knows of our life the more one must denounce it, lest it be suspected that one has a personal motive in defending it.... When other women speak of us you must assume an attitude of scorn, not only to protect yourself from suspicion, but that you may also feel it for yourself and have no temptation to return. When you think of us do not remember any small kindness that we may have shown you or that we show to one another. Remember only the things that have shocked you and outraged your traditions and your sense of decency. Remember your sufferings at the hands of beasts who are miscalled men. If you keep these things in view you will never again fall into temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the hu...man race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death,..." whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not.... There is no such thing as death according to our view!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye could not know where lies a thing so fair, No stone is there to show, no tongue to say,... What was; no dirge, except the hollow sea's, Mourns o'er the beauty of the Cyclades.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »