There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities...

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence...

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence...

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of...

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of...

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will,...

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will,...