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"Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy."
"O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station."
"I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible."
"For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!"
"I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed."
"I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence."
"Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you."
"I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person."
"I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul."
"An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan."
"Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence."
"Each man has his own batch of poems."
"How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy."
"I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal."
"The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop."
"And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything."
"And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?"
"I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken."
"Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential."
"Facts always are sensational."