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I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the read more
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, read more
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," read more
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate read more
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am read more
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
