Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. Reflections on Literature and Morality
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Moby Dick
[…] it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Midnight Library
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Don Quixote
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