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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no, just let me be myself, and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no, just let me be myself, and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
"I am afraid", replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set before us; and were one to call upon his host to set fish upon the table or sweet things, he would be deemed absurd. Yet in a word, we ask the Gods for what they do not give; and that, although they have given us so many things!
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.
When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Anyone whose goal is "something higher" must expect some day to suffer vertigo.
No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.