Both were moral decisions. Both served a higher good, in the mind of the artist. The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But often this isn’t understood; and here comes the waste, the tragedy.
Lucy Shevchenkoцитирует10 лет назад
Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Lauraцитирует5 месяцев назад
realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.
Lauraцитирует5 месяцев назад
I had several extremely intelligent slaves who might have done his job just as well a long time before, if I had recognized their intelligence and not feared their African appearance and manner.
Yanina Lebedzevaцитируетв прошлом году
And the boy sat motionless regarding him, astonished.
Yanina Lebedzevaцитируетв прошлом году
round oak table,
Elinaцитируетв прошлом году
I had a strong sense of him then, the separate being that he was, the calm and collected creature with the straight auburn hair and the large, sometimes melancholy eyes, eyes that seemed often to be seeing nothing but their own thoughts.
Elinaцитируетв прошлом году
That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil.
Elinaцитируетв прошлом году
it amazes me, how in your complexity you are so profoundly simple