Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur |
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur |
Don't be shy. Put your nose right up to the bunghole. |
Failure too is a form of death... |
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution. |
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness |
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. |
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong. |
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. |
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. |
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. |
His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. |
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. |
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. |
If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one |