It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should? Discourses
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos
He began to seach among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea. To the Lighthouse
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