Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.
Oh if life were made of moments<br>Even now and then a bad one--! <br>But if life were only moments$$$ <br>Then you'd never know you had one.
Francis Bacon set out his doctrine of idols back in the sixteenth century. He said people are not inclined to live by pure experience$$$ that its easier for them to pollute experience with prejudices. These prejudices are the idols. The idols of the tribe$$$ Bacon called them$$$ the idols of the cave.
What's worse than cancer? Leprosy.
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free$$$ they are not equal. And if they are equal$$$ they are not free.
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe$$$ it is then you shall have it.
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Be slow to fall into friendship$$$ but when you are in$$$ continue firm and constant.
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.