“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
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