“Language can be used only very obliquely of things outside the physical world, not even metaphorically, since all it knows to do—according to the nature of the physical world—is to treat of ownership and its relations.”
― Aphorisms
― Aphorisms
“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”
― Memorable Quotations: W.H. Auden
― Memorable Quotations: W.H. Auden
“Why does time stand eternally still and motionless in one place, and rush headlong by in another?”
― Austerlitz
― Austerlitz
“Time, said Austerlitz in the observation room in Greenwich, was by far the most artificial of all our inventions,”
― Austerlitz
― Austerlitz
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