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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
every conscience has an off switch somewhere.
These … xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you’re truly human.” I asked how I might remedy them. “You don’t remedy them. You live thru them.”
there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.
nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
“Freedom!” is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
mistakes—if war’s first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
