Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
Eleanor CattonAll men want their whores to be unhappy.
Eleanor CattonDeprecation always waits to be disputed, and, if the disputation does not come, becomes petulance.
Eleanor CattonThe stage is not real life, and the stage is not a copy of real life. Just like the statue , the stage is only a place where things are made present. Things that would not ordinarily happen are made to happen on stage. The stage is a site at which people can access things that would otherwise not be available to them. The stage is a place where we can witness things in such a way that it becomes unnecessary for us to feel or perform these things ourselves.
Eleanor CattonMots clés the-stage
That’s a private interest of mine – what brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the earth – what sparks a man?
Eleanor CattonMots clés sparks
The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.
Eleanor CattonMots clés view
For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.
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