Kindle Notes & Highlights
bad luck makes good stories.
“it is a little death you lay upon man each night, my son, to prepare him for the kingdom of death.”
is not death you scatter, but repose. Hang the walls of sleep with bright pictures, so that man may not know death before he dies.” These bright pictures were called dreams.
“This man is a hero. Terrible are his needs, sudden his deeds, and his dreams must be his own. I
Heroes are made, I see, when retreat is cut off.
there is nothing in the world so uncertain as man’s intentions,
