Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got read more

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a read more

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one read more

To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.