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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.
I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.