“The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.” PeopleSoulDoneCertainNationsShotsCleanHypocrisyTragicGood WorkSubconsciousDeliberateFalseness Author:Frantz Fanon
“Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!” SoulMovingForceDarkAnswersOur LivesFineOceanHorseHotCertaintyWarriorTragicShoreHostMidnightHintsEvermore Book:Poems of George Meredith Source: Poems of George Meredith
“Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?” MenNeedsHas BeensSoulWaterWorkSituationStruggleDemandTragicSignificanceComes And GoesRenounce Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)