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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Dream in a pragmatic way.