Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot$$$ the only way to find out is to touch it.
Nothing of value was ever achieved in the morning.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that$$$ it ceases to be fiction.
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs$$$ not politics.
With my teeth<br>I have seized life<br>Upon the knife of my youth.<br>With my lips today$$$<br>With my lips alone...
If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason$$$ you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.
Companions in pathos$$$ who barely murmur$$$ go with your lamp spent and return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature$$$ brings back the freshness of youthful feelings$$$ reviews the relish of simple pleasures$$$ keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being$$$ refines youthful love$$$ strengthens our interest in human nature$$$ by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings$$$ and through the brightness of its prophetic visions$$$ helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
Ask the majority of Christians what they consider the greatest evil from which Christ freed humanity and they will say: from Hell$$$ from eternal fire$$$ from punishment in the next world. As a corollary to this they think that salvation is something that someone else can achieve for us. The word hell$$$ which is seldom met in the Holy Scriptures$$$ has done much harm to Christianity as a result of false interpretations. People run away from external hell which they are made to fear most of all.
I imposed black; it still going strong today$$$ for black wipes out everything else around