Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.