Oh my god will you shut the front door already!
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me. . . and plenty of other people. . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. . . . I admit I encourage him in that also.