"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, that we can release ourselves from the old, old burden of resentment and recrimination."
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. Ours are different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, and the skin on his chest was so thin that you could see the ribs pressing out against it.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
The art of the past is being mystified because a privileged minority is striving to invent a history which can retrospectively justify the role of the ruling class.
The art of the past is being mystified because a privileged minority is striving to invent a history which can retrospectively justify the role of the ruling classes.
