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"... literature can at any moment provide the mathematical solution to life and one's own existence provided that it is put into gear and operated as though it were mathematics, so that in time it becomes a form of higher mathematics and ultimately the supreme mathematical art ..."

"Sometimes she would sit by my bed reading a book while I read another. These were the most enjoyable of my mother's visits."

"Society has remained unenlightened for centuries and will remain so for centuries to come, because to enlighten it would be to destroy it."

"As my grandfather used to say, whoever promotes sport has the support of the masses, and whoever promotes culture has the masses against him. Hence all governments are in favour of sport and opposed to culture."

"... it was the greatest crime, he said repeatedly, for a person with such a highly musical temperament to refuse to concentrate: lack of concentration was criminal."
(Bernhard's violin teacher scolding him as he learns to play)

"[My uncle Farald] donned a cap made out of newspaper, such as are worn by house-painters, painted the whole apartment in a few days, cracked a few of his jokes, and disappeared."

"[My uncle Farald] donned a cap made out of newspaper, such as are worn by house-painters, painted the whole apartment in a few days, cracked a few of his jokes, and disappeared."

"A lightning bolt is made entirely of error."

Wait.
Don't go too early.
You're tired. But everyone's tired.
But no one is tired enough.

"Begin to forget it. It will remember itself from every sides, with all gestures, in each our word. Today's truth, tomorrow's trend."

"--Sublime was the warning!"

"Tiens, how he is like somebodies!"
(Heavens,)

"Every third man has a chink in his conscience and every other woman has a jape in her mind. Now, fix on the little fellow in my eye, Minucius Mandrake, and follow my little psychosinology, poor armer in slingslang."

heavy racism against Asia :(

"The soil is for the self alone. Be ownkind. Be kithkinish. Be bloodysibby. Be irish. Be inish. Be offalia. Be hamlet. Be the property plot. Be Yorick and Lankystare. Be cool."

"A bad attack of maggot it feels like."

(this wondrous book)

"Here's our dozen cousins from the starves on tripes."
Pun A ~ The mix of European races &c. that make up America, and
Pun B ~ The country's dietary preference

"healthytobedder and latewiser."
~ The work productivity of a night owl!

"But I further, feeling a bit husky in my truths."
Dog puns - "fur," "bit," and "husky"

"... the all is *where* in love as war ..."

"One evening he perceived a faint flash of light repeatedly dart from a marigold. From the rapidity of the flash, and other circumstances, it may be conjectured that there is something of electricity in this phenomenon."

"To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson."
- "Of Experience" (1002)