Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.