Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Even one death is horrible.
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
The goal of all life is death.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
