The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
Facts always are sensational.
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Death deserves dignity.
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
Fidelity is for phonographs
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?
...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?
I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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