It seemed certain that Mrs Morpurgo must be kind and noble, for her husband said she was beautiful, and no beautiful woman would have married such an… - Rebecca West

Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.