I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: fear
Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession.
Robertson DaviesHe [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.
Robertson DaviesMy position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.
Robertson DaviesFaustina is a great work of the Creator. She has nothing of what you call brains; she doesn't need them for her destiny... It is to be glorious for a few years: not to outlive some dull husband and live on his money till she is eighty, going to lectures and comparing the attractions of winter tours that offer the romance of the Caribbean.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: destiny
Can I be a modern girl, if I acknowledge such thoughts? I must be modern; I live now. But like everybody else, as Hollier says, I live in a muddle of eras, and some of my ideas belong to today, and some to an ancient past, and some to periods of time that seem more relevant to my parents than to me. If I could sort them and control them I might know better where I stand, but when I most want to be contemporary the Past keeps pushing in, and when I long for the Past (like when I wish Tadeusz had not died, and were with me now to guide and explain and help me to find where I belong in life) the Present cannot be pushed away. When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they think of as liberation, I feel a fool, because I simply do not know where I stand.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: the-rebel-angels
We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex is very important, but if it were the single most important thing in life, it would all be much simpler, and I doubt if mankind would have worked so hard to live far beyond the age when sex is the greatest joy.
Robertson DaviesForgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson DaviesI learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: hot-dwarf
...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: faith
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