It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.