Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Patrick White

Tags: life choice fate



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Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Patrick White

Tags: integrity



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To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Patrick White


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She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Patrick White


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To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.

Patrick White


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Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring, she seemed to suggest.

Patrick White


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I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Patrick White

Tags: life love



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If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Patrick White

Tags: imagination truth



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She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Patrick White


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If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Patrick White


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