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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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.

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...

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

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.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.