If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shap...
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.