“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“...and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes-- for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life”
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“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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