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Your only chance of survival
Your only chance of survival, if you are sincerely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances.
For although a man is judged by his actions
For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he…
He once thought it himself, that he might die
He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm.…
He thought of the cost exacted
He thought of the cost exacted, year after year, by the soil; and it remained as it had been—a little more barren, perhaps, a little more frugal of increase. Nothing…
What was I after all?
Near enough what Conchis had had me told: nothing but the net sum of countless wrong turnings. I dismissed most of the Freudian jargon of the trial; but all my…
Always I had acted as if a third person was watching
Always I had acted as if a third person was watching and listening and giving me marks for good or bad behaviour – a god like a novelist, to whom…
Lyrical poetry is a realm in which any
statement immediately becomes truth. Yesterday the poet said life is a vale of tears; today he said life is a land of smiles; and he was right both times. There…
The point was we took this shit very
seriously. They had taken away our flowers, our summer days, and our bonuses, we were on a wage freeze and a hiring freeze, and people were flying out the door…
Revolution and youth are closely allied.
can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable,