“[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.”
“[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.”
Muriel Spark
“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”
Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Muriel Spark“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.”
Muriel Spark“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
Muriel Spark“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”
Muriel Spark“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”
Muriel Spark“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.”
Muriel Spark“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”
Muriel Spark“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
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