He hated injustice as he hated cruelty and he lay in his rage that blinded his mind until gradually the anger died down and the red, black, blinding, killing anger was all gone and his mind now as quiet, empty-calm and sharp, cold-seeing as a man is after he has had sexual intercourse with a woman that he does not love.
I went back to Bill. He blew his breath at me to show how cold it was, and went on playing.
Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.
In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use.
If a man liked his friend’s painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and it was not polite to criticize them.
E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.
Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty... The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.
Messier service, messier life.
While I had been angry I had demoted him from Scott to Fitzgerald.
Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.
I am not sure Scott had ever drunk wine from a bottle before and it was exciting to him as though he were slumming or as a girl might be excited by going swimming for the first time without a bathing suit.
Every man needs to speak to someone. Before we had faith and other foolishness. Now everyone needs to have someone with whom it can talk to plainly, because a man, in addition to his boldness he can have, feels very lonely.
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?