That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207