It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all pow...erful phrase-making.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation makin...g such a claim. The pursuit of happiness ... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase "the pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,... this blessing love gives again into our arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly, she wasn't drunk anymore. Her hand was steady and she was cool. Like somebody making funeral arrangements for a murder n...ot yet committed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, after all, very interesting that sound can reflect like water, like a mirror. And notice that Vinteuil's phrase only shows ...me that to which I did not pay attention at the time. Of my worries, of my loves at that time, it does not recall a thing, it has made the exchange.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,... Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. L...ike the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do ...not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »