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I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.
In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.