Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.
Nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments. The spirit is most alive when it is lost.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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