“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
