“at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
― Essays In Love
― Essays In Love
“By forty, everyone has the face they deserve,’ wrote George Orwell,”
― Essays In Love
― Essays In Love
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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