Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
lying artist simple
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?
order creator dies
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
respect real self
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
artist joy feelings
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.
love sight feelings
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
truth lying opposites
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
privilege injustice artistic
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
distance spheres lines
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
men discovery political
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
men consciousness individual
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
disease-and-death expression interest-in-life
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
men mouths safe
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
suffering inferiors
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
technology people culture
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.