Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.