For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.
Mary ButtsI am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.
Mary ButtsNature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.
Mary ButtsIf it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.
Mary Butts