The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. The Critic as Artist
Underneath the topmost layers of frailty, men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. The Practice of Psychological Assessment
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man’s existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. Parerga and Paralipomena
“I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.” Seagull
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