Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

All are / naked, none is safe.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.