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As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary.

But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would appear.

But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily.

all the ingenuity of mankind, or as M. Yermelov used to say, intellect without soul, was turned loose—the will of the insane to suffer pouring into erotic channels.

On the floor was one of his large cards with a note in which he had written To do justice to Condorcet … He hadn't the heart to read further and turned it face down on the table. For the present, anyway, Condorcet would have to find another defender. In

Grielescu was a famous scholar, not exactly a follower of Jung—but not exactly not a Jungian. He was a hard one to place.

never could see what was so disgraceful about 'stiffening in a rented house,' as Eliot wrote. Do you croak better on your own property?

Gratitude! I was deeply grateful. But the politic gratitude of weakness, of the sufferer, furious underneath.

Because you're a highbrow and married a highbrow broad. Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick. You guys can't answer your own questions—

No, it was me. I didn't want to leave, but I couldn't stay. Somebody had to take the initiative. I did. Now I'm the fall guy too.

One reason why violence is so popular may be that psychiatric insights have worn us out and we get satisfaction from seeing them blown away with automatic weapons

The thing I learned from her was of the utmost importance; namely, that everyone sees to it his fate is shared. Or tries to see to it.

The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

He goes on to say that if we don't have the gift for effecting change, we have "the solace of criticism.

Reading Sartre on the Middle East, I wonder whether he really knows what he is saying.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Passion feels very democratic. It is the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

Trump's talent stack is so strong that I believe he could make almost any basket of policies sound good to the public. I will go so far as to say that Trump could have run as a Democrat, embraced Bernie Sanders's entire platform, and won the election that way.

From this emerged: Schwager, "Das Mysterium der übernatürlichen Natur-Lehre.

Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus's conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary's "pondering.