“My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.” AsksPrayerSecretShameHeavyDebtGrantedObstinateQuake Book:Poems Source: Poems
“every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.” PeopleMindSoulHandsGrowthSecretQualityWrittenCriticsHeavyExplanationMonstrousBiographers Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.” MayLongMomentsHappensProcessSecretHeardEventsOne DayDemandHistoricalHeavyDestroyedCracksHaltInertiaPseudo Author:Vaclav Havel
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.” MenHeartHandsEyeSufferingDiesSecretMysteryCrimeHorrorBedDespairConscienceEssenceAccountsBurdenHeavyGravesThrownOld ManThroatPermitNow And ThenAlas Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe