Nothing, I knew, had any chance against death.
Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That’s what’s queer: with our noses pressed to a closed door.
The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?
Have you any notion of how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Why is it that they won’t be honest?
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
These webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.
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