Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? Book VII
“This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.” A Hunger Artist
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy. The Karamazov Brothers
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