The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be macke...
Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.
What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
The feelings I don't have I don't have.The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.The felings you say you have, you don't have.
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now qui...
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truth
If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously.