Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.