No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.