Goya Nude Maja painting

Goya Nude Maja painting
hassam Geraniums painting
Kahlo Roots painting
Rembrandt Christ In The Storm painting
``The individual, in such cases, is nearly always sacrificed to what is supposed to be the collective interest: people cling to any convention that keeps the family together -- protects the children, if there are any,'' he rambled on, pouring out all the stock phrases that rose to his lips in his intense desire to cover over the ugly reality which her silence seemed to have laid bare. Since she would not or could not say the one word that would have cleared the air, his wish was not to let her feel that he was trying to probe into her secret. Better keep on the surface, in the prudent old New York way, than risk uncovering a wound he could not heal.
``It's my business, you know,'' he went on, ``to help you to see these things as the people who are fondest of you see them. The Mingotts, the Wellands, the van der Luydens, all your friends and relations: if I didn't show you honestly how they judge such questions, it wouldn't be fair of me, would it?'' He spoke insistently, almost pleading with her in his eagerness to cover up that yawning silence.
She said slowly: ``No; it wouldn't be fair.''