What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.