Confessions of Two Brothers Quotes

“I do not find human nature either wicked or good, I find it driven forward by the same inevitable laws as the tides and the constellations”
― John Cowper Powys, Confessions of Two Brothers

“The more one tries to analyze oneself the more one is conscious of amazing paradoxes and inconsistencies which lurk under the simplest surface.”
― John Cowper Powys, Confessions of Two Brothers

“It is the little thing, the unrehearsed gesture, the catch in the breath, the droop of the lip, the start of surprise, which really reveals. We may analyze ourselves in volumes and remain undiscovered; and then – by a yawn, a tilt of the head, a sob of exhaustion, a flash of hate - we are betrayed and unmasked forever.”
― John Cowper Powys, Confessions of Two Brothers