We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

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.

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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...

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,...

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

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

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,...

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

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...

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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...

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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.

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.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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....