Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it, you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a...
#TO PONDER OVER# P9: The wiser go their way with a decent grace. In their chastened smile is an indulgent mockery. They remeber that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torchbearers will presently yield their palce also. There is no last word. The new evangel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky...
she smiled,and her eyes shone with a malice I knew already.It meant that she had heard some scandal about one of her friends,and the instinct of the literary woman was all alert. "You did meet Charles Strickland ,did't you?" …… “Isn't it dreadful?He's run away from his wife.” …… Too shy to espress my sympathy. “Anybody can sympathize with the suffering of a friend,but it requires a very ...
“There was just that shadowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism,so that they exist in it and by it olny.They are like cells in the body,essential,but, so long as they remain health, engulfed in the momentous whole.'活着的大多数。
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