Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
There is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it’s the good men that can’t deny the bill when it comes around. They can’t deny it, like the honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that’s why don’t anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good can’t.
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man’s imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
Every man is the arbiter of his own virtues but let no man prescribe for another man’s wellbeing.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.[Also known as:]Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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