I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.
One should be allowed to choose one's burden. - Mary Butts
One should be allowed to choose one's burden.
- Mary Butts
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice,… - Mary Butts
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice,…
It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it. - Mary Butts
It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again. - Mary Butts
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.
The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told. - Mary Butts
The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.
Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay. - Mary Butts
Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.
Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. - Mary Butts
Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.
I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometim… - Mary Butts
I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometim…
I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the C… - Mary Butts
I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the C…
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