Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once.
If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.
He wants to stay in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he’ll be powerful in change.
For warfare, a man needs only his mind. But to win, it requires a talent and resources.
He would have to talk with Pablo about politics. It would certainly be interesting to see what his political development had been. The classical move from left to right, probably; like old Lerroux.
He was not at all afraid of dying but he was angry at being trapped on this hill which was only utilizable as a place to die.
You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.
Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?
If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.
When it comes to death, who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight?
Dante only made crazy people feel they could write great poetry. That was not true of course but then almost nothing was true and especially not in Africa. In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
Wilson looked at them both. If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?
How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She’s damn cruel but they’re all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes.
As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
A coward dies a thousand times, but a brave man only once.
Que cosa mas mala es la guerra – What a horrible thing war is.
It is not basically a question of the size in repose,” I said. “It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.
The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most at this time. There is, of course, the problem of sustenance.
Don’t you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes.
Whether one has fear of it or not, one’s death is difficult to accept.