“I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..”
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“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”
― Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
― Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
“It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
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