I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.