Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when itβs dark
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
