Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.