This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
I enjoyed the mathematics that I had time to learn. If I ever need or want to learn some more, I shall not be afraid to do so.
Crime | Energy | Force | Fulfillment | Good | Important | Individual | Learning | Little | Means | Sense | Society | Will | Wishes | Society |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
One cannot expect Miss Jones to revolutionize her outlook overnight. One has to provide her with a steady stream of material, which she can introduce into her existing syllabus as enrichment. In the course of years, she will enlarge her repertoire. All the time, the new material should be as close as possible to what she already knows. This is how revolutions are made; not by taking one big step, but by taking many little steps quickly, one after other.
Force | Joy | Mathematics | Pleasure | Question | Regret | Sense | Worry |
What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.
W. Eugene Smith, fully William Eugene Smith
The belief, the try, a camera and some film - the fragile weapons of my good intentions. With these I fought war.
Compassion | Enough | Important | Rest | Right | Sense | Understanding |
Ah, but to play man number one, to drive the dagger in his heart, to lay his brain upon the board and pick the acrid colors out, to nail his thought across the door, its wings spread wide to rain and snow, to strike his living hi and ho.
Sense |
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this — But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defenses. And I don't really resent it.
Out of the first warmth of spring, and out of the shine of the menlocks, among the bare and crooked trees, she found a helping from the cold, like a meaning in nothingness.
The skeleton said it is a question of the naked man, the naked man as last and tallest hero and plus gaudiest vir.
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
The young men strained upon the crank to wring the last reluctant inch. They laughed together, fair and frank, and threw their loins across the winch.
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
The fount of joy was bubbling in thine eyes, dancing was in thy feet, and on thy lips a laugh that never dies, unutterably sweet. Dance on! forever young, forever fair, lightfooted as a frightened bounding deer, thy wreath of vine-leaves twisted in thy hair, through all the changing seasons of the year...
In his time, this one had little to speak of, the softest word went gurrituck in his skull. For him the moon was always in Scandinavia and his daughter was a foreign thing.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
Insecurity | Majority | Question | Sense | Old |
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
The word universe means the general assemblage of all nature, and it also means the heaven that is made up of the constellations and the courses of the stars.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
To be successful, insurrection must rely not upon conspiracy and not upon a party, but upon the advanced class. That is the first point. Insurrection must rely upon a revolutionary upsurge of the people. That is the second point. Insurrection must rely upon that turning-point in the history of the growing revolution when the activity of the advanced ranks of the people is at its height, and when the vacillations in the ranks of the enemy and in the ranks of the weak, half-hearted and irresolute friends of the revolution are strongest. That is the third point. And these three conditions for raising the question of insurrection distinguish Marxism from Blanquism.
Sense |
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
Better | Bourgeoisie | Brutality | Church | Gold | Government | Haste | Lesson | Means | Order | People | Principles | Property | Sense | Struggle | Sympathy | Wealth | Will | Work | Government | Think |
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of categories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellow-ly blurred, illusive, lost.
Ecstasy | Enjoyment | Fate | Genius | Gratitude | Magic | Oneness | Sense | Fate |