Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.