It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. - Muriel Spark
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
- Muriel Spark
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.
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…
Beware the ire of the calm. - Muriel Spark
Beware the ire of the calm.
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…
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. - Muriel Spark
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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.
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. - Muriel Spark
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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.
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