We should try in vain to describe a man’s character, but let his acts be collected and an idea of the character will be presented to us.
We should try in vain to describe a man’s character, but let his acts be collected and an idea of the character will be presented to us.
“…he couldn’t have explained, to anyone, least of all a man fifty years old, even his uncle, how to assuage the heart’s thirst with the dusty chronicle of the past when not fifteen hundred miles away in England men not much older than he was were daily writing with their lives his own time’s deathless footnote.”
William Faulkner | “Knight’s Gambit”