Where Angels Fear to TreadA.A. Knopf, 1920 - 283 sider |
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Side 121 - Society is invincible — to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity — nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty — into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life — the real you.
Side 108 - He concluded that nothing could happen, not knowing that human love and love of truth sometimes conquer where love of beauty fails.
Side 107 - Sometimes when he had been bullied or hustled about at school he would retire to his cubicle and examine his features in a looking-glass, and he would sigh and say, "It is a weak face. I shall never carve a place for myself in the world." But as years went on he became either less self-conscious or more self-satisfied. The world, he found, made a niche for him as it did for every one. Decision of character might come later— or he might have it without knowing. At all events he had got a sense of...
Side 48 - Philip had seen that face before in Italy a hundred times — seen it and loved it, for it was not merely beautiful, but had the charm which is the rightful heritage of all who are born on that soil.
Side 233 - You are so splendid, Mr. Herriton, that I can't bear to see you wasted. I can't bear — she has not been good to you — your mother." " Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them; I never did anything at school or at the Bar.
Side 215 - For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and — by some sad, strange irony — it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.
Side 73 - Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism — that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.
Side 283 - For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation. This episode, which she thought so sordid, and which was so tragic for him, remained supremely beautiful (WAFT, 147-8).
Side 80 - The person who understands us at first sight, who never irritates us, who never bores, to whom we can pour forth every thought and wish, not only in speech but in silence — that is what I mean by simpatico.
Side 42 - Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better. It was going from Philip now, and therefore he gave the cry of pain.