There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the... mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when t...he stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.... Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence--the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,... and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usuall...y means that thereafter we stand still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate t...he crime without knowing what they are doing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living, some sad experience in conforming to the wishes of friends ...being fresh in my mind to tax my ingenuity, I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do, and its small profits might suffice,--for my greatest skill has been to want but little,--so little capital it required, so little distraction from my wonted moods, I foolishly thought. While my acquaintances went unhesitatingly into trade or the professions, I contemplated this occupation as most like theirs; ranging the hills all summer to pick the berries which came in my way, and thereafter carelessly dispose of them.... But I have since learned that trade curses everything it handles; and though you trade in messages from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an ...eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »