The advantage man enjoys, which makes itself felt from his childhood, is that his vocation as a human being in no way runs counter... to his destiny as a male. Through his identification of phallus and transcendence, it turns out that his social and spiritual successes endow him with a virile prestige. He is not divided. Whereas it is required of woman that in order to realize her femininity she must make herself object and prey, which is to say that she must renounce her claims as a sovereign subject. It is this conflict that especially marks the situation of the emancipated woman. She refuses to confine herself to her role as female, because she will not accept mutilation; but it would also be a mutilation to repudiate her sex. Man is a human being with sexuality; woman is a complete individual, equal to the male, only if she too is a human being with sexuality. To renounce her femininity is to renounce a part of her humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;... Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control Stops with the shore;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I couldn't find the spot where Frank had hidden the bag with the clothes. You can't imagine how cold I was until I found them. You... know, I'm beginning to understand why ghosts moan so in this sort of weather.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Diègue: Rodrigue, have you any courage? Don Rodrigue: If you weren't my father, you would have a taste of it on the spot.... ("Rodrigue, as-tu du coeur?" "Tout autre que mon père/L'éprouverait sur l'heure.")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Epic poem,--ten thousand lines--revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night,--bang the field-piece,... twang the lyre."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is ...entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--o...r rather we have seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are tele- viewers, tele-hearers, tele-knowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The climacteric marks the end of apologizing. The chrysalis of conditioning has once for all to break and the female woman finally... to emerge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be great, carve deep your heel-marks. The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge... their love of freedom with contempt of luxury.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »