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this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de...

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see th...

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having he...

The unification of the planet's history, that humanist dream which God has spitefully allowed to com...

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat diff...

Never say more than is necessary.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's...

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering ...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu...

And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly...

On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Wh...

Know then thyself; presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain ...

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est not...

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bu...

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven ...

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have...

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite po...

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was ...

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you ...