Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas.
She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.
A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...
So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.
At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god--not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.
On can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.
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