| |  | | | | | | | | | | | We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. | | Uncategorized | | | What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. | | Uncategorized | | | What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. | | Nature | | | What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. | | Uncategorized | | | What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure. | | Uncategorized | | | Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty. | | Uncategorized | | | Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced. | | Words | | | Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. | | Words | | | Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. | | Uncategorized | | | Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad | | Uncategorized | | | You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. | | Uncategorized | | | Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. | | Boredom; Travel | | | | | | | |
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