Sign in with Facebook
1,987 books
—
5,448 voters
“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”
― Travels with My Aunt
― Travels with My Aunt
“What a thing this sleeplessness was! . . . If sleep, she thought, could be compared to a gentle lake in a dark place, then sleeplessness was a roaring ocean, a raging, wind-buffeted voyage, lit with mad rocket-lights, pursued by wild phantoms from behind, plunging upon fearful rocks ahead, a mad tempest of the past and present and future all in one. Through all this the pale, strenuous mariner must somehow steer a way, until at last the weary dawn, not of sleep, but of resignation to sleeplessness, comes to calm the waters of the mind.”
― The Slaves of Solitude
― The Slaves of Solitude
“The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face”
―
―
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes: the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates.
In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.
It is true that they look human--but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, every one recognizes they are animals--why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.
It is true that they look human--but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, every one recognizes they are animals--why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
— 97 members
— last activity Dec 20, 2017 12:27PM
For everyone who believes that a good cup of tea combined with a good book solves anything.
minnie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at minnie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
173 books
|
63 friends
20,688 books
|
118 friends
3,172 books
|
4,996 friends
3,766 books
|
164 friends
3,046 books
|
77 friends
1,054 books
|
15 friends
2,883 books
|
139 friends
2,406 books
|
155 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by minnie
Lists liked by minnie
