“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
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