Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
W.H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
society murder atonement
past laziness impatience
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
perception sense-of-self autobiography
All we are not stares back at what we are.
self-improvement potential
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
self shadow mirror
If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.
shakespeare opera
So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
time
Drama is based on the Mistake.
drama mistake
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
fairy-tales
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
heroes role-models
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.
laughter
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
mankind geology
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;
devotion
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
consumerism television entertainment
All I have is a voice.
voice
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