In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace a...t Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Courtin's manual of etiquette of 1671 explains: "These little people are allowed to amuse themselves without anyone troubling to s...ee whether they are behaving well or badly; they are permitted to do as they please; nothing is forbidden them; they laugh when they ought to cry, they cry when they ought to laugh, they talk when they ought to be silent, and they are mute when good manners require them to replay. It is cruelty to allow them to go on living in this way. The parents say that when they are bigger they will be corrected. Would it not be better to deal with them in such a way that there was nothing to correct?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lies fall like flaxen threads from the skies All over America, and the fact that some of them are true of course... Doesn't so much not matter as serve to justify The whole mad organizing force under the billows of correct delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am using it [the word 'perceive'] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that i...t exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things, A blackened people, living and dying in silence.... (Enfin, dans un amas de choses, sombre, immense, Un peuple noir, vivant et mourant en silence.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »