A Plethora of Quotations

I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

The idea of contemporaneity of the present and the past has one final consequence: not only does the past coexist with the present that has been, but, as it preserves itself in itself (while the present passes), it is the whole, integral past; it is all our past, which coexists with each present.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

But modern thought is born of the failure of representation, of the loss of identities, and of the discovery of all the forces that act under representation of the identical. The modern world is one of simulacra.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

That’s why I like you so much. Your heart isn’t dead.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.