
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 180-181
Source: Ham on Rye
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 180-181
Xiomara Castro (2021) cited in: " Xiomara Castro poised to become first female president of Honduras https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/xiomara-castro-declares-victory-in-honduras-presidential-election" in The Guardian, 29 November 2021.
New Year's Eve
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (Jun 23, 2009)
“The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 146
Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: In those former times we lived. Now we hardly live any more, since we have lived. They who we were are dead, for we are here. Her glances come to me, but they do not join again the two surviving voids that we are; her look does not wipe out our widowhood, nor change anything. And I, I am too imbued with clear-sighted simplicity and truth to answer "no" when it is "yes." In this moment by my side Marie is like me.
The immense mourning of human hearts appears to us. We dare not name it yet; but we dare not let it not appear in all that we say.