If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance o… - Muriel Spark
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance o…
- Muriel Spark
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. - Muriel Spark
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers. - Muriel Spark
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
Beware the ire of the calm. - Muriel Spark
Beware the ire of the calm.
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. - Muriel Spark
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different w… - Muriel Spark
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different w…
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. - Muriel Spark
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. - Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. - Muriel Spark
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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