Sublime

“Be scared. You can’t help that,” William Faulkner put it. “But don’t be afraid.”

Mr Brooke himself was not in a position to be quickly conscious of anything except a general slipping away of ideas within himself: he had even a little singing in the ears, and he was the only person who had not yet taken distinct account of the echo or discerned the image of himself. Few things hold the perceptions more thoroughly captive than an

The destruction of the finest is natural, it confirms them.

Only Arturo Caminada wept. Openly. Manly. For forty years he had served you as driver, handyman, man's man, as lover long ago for Gala, the wife you loved beyond the distance of touch or desire. For forty years he answered your call only to be omitted from the will so cleverly written to confuse and cretinize. A surrealist gesture.

Je ne puis rester oisif, et cependant je ne puis rien faire. Je n'ai aucune imagination, aucune sensibilité pour la nature, et les livres m'inspirent du dégoût. Quand nous nous manquons à nous-mêmes, tout nous manque.

he repeated what his father had once told him, that scared money cant win and a worried man cant love.

Judge, then, how all-desolating and withering the blast, that for Pierre, in one night, stripped his holiest shrine of all over-laid bloom, and buried the mild statue of the saint beneath the prostrated ruins of the soul's temple itself.