“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.