Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. . . . Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.
I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.
I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it. " Like, yeah.
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