A manโs dying is more the survivorsโ affair than his own.
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!