To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
Eternity: what a waste of time.
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
Might I be the one I am looking for?
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.