Art like life is an open secret.
Art like life is an open secret.
Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Music is only love looking for words.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures-and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories