Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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Nationality: Swiss Type: Theologian Born: August 12, 1905 Death: June 26, 1988 |
“My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.”
“Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.”