“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the [...]
“The concept of an autonomous ‘haptic’ sense, that allows the apprehension of form and space independently of optics and acoustics, is not difficult to accept, and this may simply lie buried beneath the visual assessment in all but those who are born blind. But for a minority, the haptic sense remains the primary orientation. Such [...]
“I am thinking of the moment something dies and how we instinctively know it. And of how we try not to know what we know because we do not yet understand how we are to negotiate change.”
“Loving - that means assuming nothing, bringing nothing along from anywhere else, forgetting everything and being ready to receive from one person what you had before and everything else besides.”
“Modern morality consists in accepting the standards of one’s age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standards of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.”
“Her journey was now to be with women. Only women. Because of women. And partly because she had seemed to feel, and to wonder aloud, about the possibility that only women, these days, dreamed of rivers, and were alarmed that they were dry.”
“Nowadays people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it’s too late that the only things one never regrets are ones mistakes.”