all mind and violence and nothing felt

Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

we have to deal not with the horizons of modified presents—past or future—but with a "past" that has never been nor will ever be present, whose "future" will never be produced or reproduced in the form of presence.

By considering these prejudices, however, we have made plain not only that the question of Being lacks an answer, but that the question itself is obscure and without direction. So if it is to be revived, this means that we must first work out an adequate way of formulating it.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.