"She raise her face to his, with an imperceptible
yet searching movement of her eyes; as if there was something he
must see, it was not too late: a truth beyond his truths, an emotion
beyons his emotions, a history beyond all his conceptions of history.
As if she could say worlds; yet at the same time knew that if he
could not apprehend those worlds without her saying them..."
The French Lieutenant´s Woman |
" Love is the mystery between two people, not the
identity"
The Magus |
| "You are someone who does not understand what freedom is. And
above all that the better you understand it, the less you possess of
it"
The Magus |
"No true compassion without will. No true will without compassion."
Daniel Martin |
"The bowed head, the buried face.
She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never
leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspend the autumn tree,
the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season
from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments
of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell
of burning leaves."
The Magus |
"One of the great fallacies of our time is that
the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely
the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed
chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego,
what you will. They said, 'You may persecute the minority, you may
kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love.' They
offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything
is permitted."
The Magus |
| "In fact, and although he had not, during that dull dinner,
perhaps because of the too exactly pictured and specific set of Egyptian
divinities closest on his mind had the least realization of the honour
he was being accorded, he was not just doing his expected duty - but
meeting incarnate the darkest, strangest and most omnipotent god of
them all."
Daniel Martin |
"Images are inherently fascistic because they overstamp the
truth, however dim and blurred, of the real past experience, as if,
faced with ruins, we must turn architects, not archeologists. The
word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age
could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect."
Daniel Martin |
| " The princess calls, but there is no one, now, to hear her"
The Ebony Tower - The Cloud |
" Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation."
Daniel Martin |
| "Paint. Just paint. This is my advice. And leave the clever
talk to the poor sods who can´t"
The Ebony Tower |
"The ordinary man is the curse of civilization."
The Collector |
" 'I must know the real truth, the truth beyond magic.'
'There is no truth beyond magic,' said the king. "
The Magus |
"The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma - human
or divine - can deminish or demeanor. Indeed, it can only cause them,
and then walk out."
The Ebony Tower - The Enigma |
"Cage me. Cage yourself"
The Blinded Eye |
"Utram Bibis? - Aquam an Undam."
The Magus |
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is
the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
The Magus
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. |
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write
in words.
The French Lieutenants Woman |
Time is not a road -- it is a room.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that
time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become.
It is what you are and always will be.
The Magus |
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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| An answer is always a form of death. |
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion;
we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
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