I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.