“A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.” HumansMayCharacterFeelingsEarthFoundExistenceHuman NatureJudgmentErrorsSurfaceSentimentsMetalsConcealedSandyPrecious Metal Book:Essays and aphorisms Source: Essays and aphorisms
“What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.” PeopleWorldBookMatterFeelingsWantedImaginationSubjectsEventsGeniusDepthExtremesSurfaceOriginalityInteriorsSubject MatterRaptureThoughts And FeelingsWildnessMatchedExaltation Book:An American Childhood Source: An American Childhood
“A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.” WellsHeartFeelingsDarkLearningArgumentSurfaceBuriedScholar Author:Natalie Clifford Barney
“Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.” HumansPlayFeelingsAgeFacesSurfaceTricksVisibleMaskRepressedHuman Faces Book:I Source: I
“I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsHumansBookStoriesFeelingsRealityReadingMy OwnBehindsFantasyConditionsSurfaceGapsHuman ConditionFantasy And Reality Author:Signe Baumane