You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge