Date: 1860
"What you call self-conquest -- blinding and deafening yourself to all but one train of impressions, is only the culture of monomania in a nature like yours."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1860
"Yes! I have had feelings to struggle with - but I conquered them."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1992
"No doubt suicide would turn out to be the violent preface to yet another span of nauseating consciousness, of diminishing spirals and tightening nooses, and memories like shrapnel tearing all day long through his flesh."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"This is after all the heart of the matter, the place where everything -- not without difficulty, not without civil war, not without nailing down my tongue and drawing over it the serrated knife of one thing after another, not without learning to thank my torturers because it's been such a growth...
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)