Source: "Yan Geling: I Am Also A Person In The Cave" https://www.bannedbook.org/en/bnews/lifebaike/20211010/1635954.html (10 October 2021)
Attributed to Burchill in: Mark Water (2000) The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations. p. 111
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 16, “Ragnarok: The Final Destiny of the Gods” (p. 278)
Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 153.
“it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone”
Variant: It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
“Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: Man still needs to undergo a complete spiritual rebirth in his attitude towards his work, freed from the direct pressure of his social environment, though linked to it by his new habits. That will be communism.
The change in consciousness will not take place automatically, just as it doesn't take place automatically in the economy. The alterations are slow and are not harmonious; there are periods of acceleration, pauses and even retrogressions.
“Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.”
Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 338
Context: Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.
“To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.”
On his opera Pelléas et Mélisande
The Life of the Creative Spirit
