TuesdayAug 11, 2026
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
In real love you want the other persons good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim ... for discovery of cosmic truths when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
I have always fought for ideas until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.
... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know.... But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
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