Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Releio? Menti! Não ouso reler. Não posso reler. De que me serve reler?
Source: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process (2009), p. 19
<Small> From The Introduction https://eckharttolle.com/oneness-with-all-life-excerpt/</small>
Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)
“I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.”
A Dead Statesman
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
Context: I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
“9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.”
The Absinthe Donuts Story http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_absinthe_donuts_story.phtml#280,
The Tucker Max Stories
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
“He replies to our babble, 'you cannot and dare not. I could and dared.”
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: And then one babbles — 'if only I could bear it, or the worst of it, or any of it, instead of her.' But one can't tell how serious that bid is, for nothing is staked on it. If it suddenly became a real possibility, then, for the first time, we should discover how seriously we had meant it. But is it ever allowed?
It was allowed to One, we are told, and I find I can now believe again, that He has done vicariously whatever can be done. He replies to our babble, 'you cannot and dare not. I could and dared.
Evening reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Wim Wenders. Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989). (The above transcription is from Kiyokazu Washida. The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself (2002), Ch. 1: Fashion, or the Gaze at the Past).
