"

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of...more

"

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so t...more

"

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

"

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

"

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

"

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

"

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the grou...more

"

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He at...more

"

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

"

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

"

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

"

I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying to the tube station, you would have ha...more

"

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse wh...more

"

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I s...more

"

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.