My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me |
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. |
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few |
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. |
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. |
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. |
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego |
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. |
The most exhausting thing in life is insincerity |
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. |
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. |
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. |
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. |
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change |
What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice |