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“The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Ere long, I learned that it was not myself, but only my shadow, that I had lost. I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.”
― Phantastes
― Phantastes
“Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.”
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“I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.”
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