We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy?
Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty-five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while he was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island.
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