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Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts. What can be removed is the motivation.

Don't worry about the faithlessness of women—you've got a Spanish wife now—famous for their faithfulness! (See Encyclopedias, histories, guide books.)

Seems to me you have escaped the fatality of repetition in your destiny by escaping cruelty in women. As I escaped mine by finding you, in place of my former penchant for dead or half-dead men! Did I leave my face powder & engagement book chez toi?

Sunshine is only a restorative—not a stimulus to work. I would write more but I am ashamed to ask for more paper. Love. Henry

Can you read this ink, made of distilled Andalusian blood?

are the only woman who has had a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance—no more, you seem to urge me to betray you.

What a powerful duet! What a mixture of significant irrelevancies, illuminating incongruities! [. . .]

What you said the other day about the futility of running away was very profound; and very courageous. Listen, Henry, I believe you should talk with Jung. I

If you look at language merely as craft you are committing lèse-majesté towards your own sacred tools. You've got to have the proper respect—you've got to feel awed in its presence (see, I say "awed," not "sacred").

The precondition, then, of the creative personality is not only acceptance, but its actual glorification of itself.

Explanations are for husbands, for people you don't care about any more.

as I have the tragic sense of life these days

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

her 1935 memoir of life in Gilded Age New York, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, Bessie

It has taken years to find the answer, but I go back to that quote by Mary Gordon: "Being fatherless leaves a woman with a taste for the fanatical . . . a fatherless girl can be satisfied only with the heroic, the desperate, the extreme.

The producer approached and asked if I wanted to speak with Dr. Phil. "You mean as a therapist or as an interview subject for my show?" I asked.

Le style des Faux-Monnayeurs ne doit présenter aucun intérêt de surface, aucune saillie. Tout doit être dit de la manière la plus plate, celle qui fera dire à certains jongleurs : que trouvez-vous à admirer là-dedans ?

you must blackmail Julius. Come, come, don't make a fuss! Blackmail is a wholesome institution, necessary for the maintenance of morals.

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

There is an intimacy about the place that makes it unique among America's racetracks.

Adam of St Victor (1112–46): 'Effective cause and also formal cause, | and final cause – God – | but at no time is he the material cause.