Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Love is a drama of contradictions.
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
Writing means revealing oneself to excess.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.