It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.