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 Shevchenkoalıntı yaptı10 yıl önce
Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Lauraalıntı yaptı3 ay önce
realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.
Lauraalıntı yaptı3 ay önce
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 Lebedzevaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
And the boy sat motionless regarding him, astonished.
Yanina Lebedzevaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
round oak table,
Elinaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
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.
Elinaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil.
Elinaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
it amazes me, how in your complexity you are so profoundly simple