I am going to tell you something concerning myself, which ... will I believe a little surprise you--it is, that I scarce wish for ...anything so truly, really and greatly, as to be in love.... I cannot help thinking it is a great happiness to have a strong and particular attachment to some one person, independent of duty, interest, relationship or pleasure: but I carry not my wish so far as a mutual tendresse--God no, I should be contented to love sola--and let Duets be reserved for those who have a proper sense of their superiority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as ...though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for a...nything more?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anythin...g, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still, I am prepared for this voyage, and for anything else you may care to mention. Not that I am not afraid, but there is v...ery little time left. You have probably made travel arrangements, and know the feeling. Suddenly, one morning, the little train arrives in the station, but oh, so big It is! Much bigger and faster than anyone told you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ask myself: what are my views on death, the next world, God? I look into my mind and discover I am too much of a mannikin to hav...e any. As for death, I am a little bit of trembling jelly of anticipation. I am prepared for anything, but I am the complete agnostic; I simply don't know. To have views, faith, beliefs, one needs a backbone. This great bully of a universe overwhelms me. The stars make me cower. I am intimidated by the immensity surrounding my own littleness. It is futile and presumptuous for me to opine anything about the next world. But I hope for something much freer and more satisfying after death, for emancipation of the spirit and above all for the obliteration of this puny self, this little, skulking, sharp-witted ferret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in part...icular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Critics generally come to be critics not by reason of their fitness for this, but of their unfitness for anything else. Books shou...ld be tried by a judge and jury as though they were a crime, and counsel should be heard on both sides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »