The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.