“If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a craftsman. If you begin with a question and use it to guide an adventure of discovery, that’s the work of the artist.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“I loved nothing so much as romances. Nothing could equal my delight when, on some holiday, I could settle down quietly in a corner, and enter with my whole heart and soul into the joys or sorrows of some fictitious Leonora. I do not deny that they even possess some charms for me yet. But I read so seldom, that I prefer books suited exactly to my taste. And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life, -- and the friends who are about me, whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence, --which, without being absolutely paradise, is, on the whole, a source of indescribable happiness.”
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“didn’t love pain; it was just something that was there in my frame of reference—the way I expected the world to be.”
― Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
― Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
“Farewell antithesis. I have suffered. All is paid. Let me go forth to recreate my sleep”
― Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites
― Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites
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