...and while they were eating, he said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me." And they became greatly distressed and bega...n to say to him one after another, "Surely not I, Lord?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort ...that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account f...or its origin. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We looked down at a glassy glittering icy place many days walking across and very deep, between enormous icy black peaks. All we l...ooked at had a glassy awfulness that hurt into our dying eyes; and as we peered down over the edge of the miniature valley we were stranded in at the top of the mountain peak, we knew we would never leave it. How could we, weak as we were, descend the ghastly precipices of that peak? And so, for the last time with our old eyes, we sat close and looked into each other's faces, until, one after another, our faces shuttered themselves in death, and our bundles of bones settled inside the heaps of our shag-skin coats, so that, as we slid away from that scene, and saw it with eyes we had not known we possessed, all we could see was what looked like a herd of beasts crouched in sleep or in death high up there on a mountaintop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What did you do with your fear, later? Through the years of humiliation,... of paranoia and blackmail and near-starvation, losing the love of those you loved, one after another, parents, lovers, children, idolized friends, what kept compassion's candle alight in you....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go,... Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in, Where their priceless blood reddens the grass the ground, Or to the rows of the hospital tent, or under the roof'd hospital, To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return, To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss, An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail, Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman was originally the inventor, the manufacturer, the provider. She has allowed one office after another gradually to slip from... her hand, until she retains, with loose grasp, only the so-called housekeeping.... Having thus given up one by one the occupations which required knowledge of materials and processes, and skill in using them ... she rightly feels that what's left is mere deadening drudgery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another..., always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A human being is a human being, a skirt is, too, otherwise he might just as well buy a whore for three marks, who is perfectly hap...py if she can trot off the moment it's over. But to begin by coddling a girl with love and a lot of soft stuff, and then push her off like that, and one girl after another, no sirree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »