His pain was too great. He begged me for the simple mercy of death. And I could do nothing else but help him leave a world that ha...d become a sleepless, tortured nightmare to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territ...ories of Europe which are under German influence.... I furthermore charge you to submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing the ... measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the huma...n subject. I hope it may prove successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was betwe...en David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.... It is in this century misunderstood ... and on account of it I am placed where I am now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no umpire between us, wh...o might lay his hand on us both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the 'human essence,' the distinctive qualities of mind that ...are, so far as we know, unique to man and that are inseparable from any critical phase of human existence, personal or social. Hence the fascination of this study, and, no less, its frustration. The frustration arises from the coming to grips with the core problem of human language, which I take to be this: having mastered a language, one is able to understand an indefinite number of expressions that are new to one's experience, that bear no simply physical resemblance and are in no simple way analogous to the expressions that constitute one's linguistic experience; and one is able ... to produce such expressions on an appropriate occasion, despite their novelty.... The normal use of language is, in this sense, a creative activity. This creative aspect of normal language use is one fundamental factor that distinguishes human language from any known system of animal communication.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the p...eople of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is no rune nor symbol, what I mean is it is so simple... yet no trick of the pen or brush could capture that impression; what I wanted to indicate was a new phase, a new distinction of colour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had let preadolescence creep up on me without paying much attention--and I seriously underestimated this insidious phase of chil...d development. You hear about it, but you're not a true believer until it jumps out at you in the shape of your own, until recently quite companionable child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »