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“The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.”

The cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar “what a messy business it is to be fallen for” by the more literary “what uneasiness lies in being loved.”

“I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer of him.”