By the Fireside, xlvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third”
“Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”
Source: Definite Article
Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 2, Lwów, p. 29.
Maxims and Arrows, 3
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“Life complete, is lived in two worlds; the one inside, and the one outside.”
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Life complete, is lived in two worlds; the one inside, and the one outside. The first half of our days is spent wholly in the former; the second, if it is what it ought to be, wholly in the latter — till our education is almost finished; theories are only words to us, and church controversy is not of things but of shadows of things. Through all that time life and thought beyond our own experience is but a great game played out by book actors; we do not think, we only think we think, and we have been too busy in our own line to have a notion really of what is beyond it. But while so much of our talk is so unreal, our own selves, our own risings, fallings, aspirings, resolutions, misgivings, these are real enough to us; these are our hidden life, our sanctuary of our own mysteries.
“There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell”
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
On his persuasive rejection of the term "Third World", in his Introduction to State of the Ark (1986) by Lee McGeorge Durrell.
