The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.