Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Like love, grief fades in and out.
Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.