the teaching of my philosophy... that our whole existence is something which had better not have been, and that to disown and disclaim it is the highest wisdom. Counsels and Maxims
“She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. Midnight Library
Chess ... a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. The Irrational Knot
The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Mrs. Dalloway
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