Yu's Blog: a sinking arsonist , page 22

"Brought up in the conviction that life is the highest good and death the greatest dismay, we become..."

“Brought up in the conviction that life is the highest good and death the greatest dismay, we...

"Apparently nobody wants to know that contemporary history has created a new kind of human beings..."

“Apparently nobody wants to know that contemporary history has created a new kind of human...

"With the arrival of Romanticism, writers in France began to draw. The pen runs across the page,..."

“With the arrival of Romanticism, writers in France began to draw. The pen runs across the...

"Our only access to reality is our experience of it; we can say nothing more about it except what our..."

“Our only access to reality is our experience of it; we can say nothing more about it except...

"Exile is life led outside habitual order. It is nomadic, decentred, contrapuntal; but no sooner does..."

“Exile is life led outside habitual order. It is nomadic, decentred, contrapuntal; but no...

"Exile is never the state of being satisfied, placid, or secure. Exile, in the words of Wallace..."

“Exile is never the state of being satisfied, placid, or secure. Exile, in the words of...

"For an exile, habits of life, expression or activity in the new environment inevitably occur against..."

“For an exile, habits of life, expression or activity in the new environment inevitably occur...

"Exile is not, after all, a matter of choice: you are born into it, or it happens to you."

“Exile is not, after all, a matter of choice: you are born into it, or it happens to...

"To be rooted, is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul."

“To be rooted, is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human...

"the novel, a literary form created out of the unreality of ambition and fantasy, is the form of..."

“the novel, a literary form created out of the unreality of ambition and fantasy, is the form...