THOUGHTS
- '"The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
- "There is no pain in life equal to that which two lovers can inflict on each other".
- "When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest actions, but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized."
- "A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts forth, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts, and to second-rate friends."
- "'Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea."
- "Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk."
- "No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."
- "The dread of loneliness is keener than the threat of bondage; and so we marry, again and again."
