“It’s like a running blaze on a plain, like a
flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long
as the old earth keeps rolling!” (Pg 48)
“Your strength is just an accident arising
from the weakness of others.” (Pg 50)
“Avoid irritation more than exposure to the
sun.” (Pg 57)
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a
dream – making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the
dream-sensation, that comingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a
tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible
which is of the very essence of dreams…” (Pg 78)
“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to
convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence – that which
makes its truth, its meaning – its subtle and penetrating essence. It is
impossible. We live, as we dream – alone.” (Pg 78)
“Even a genius would find it easier to work
with ‘adequate tools’ – intelligent men.” (Pg 78)
“No sensible man rejects wantonly the
confidence of his superiors.” (Pg 78)
“I don’t like work – no man does – but I like
what is in the work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for
yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see
the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” (Pg 80)
“Once can’t live with one’s finger
everlastingly on one’s pulse.” (Pg 99)
“But when one is young one must see things,
gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.” (Pg 116)
“You show them you have in you something that
is really profitable, and then there will be no limits to the recognition of
your ability.” (Pg 138)
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