And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
In order to understand, I destroyed myself.