Sloth Is All Passions The Most Powerful.

Habit Is The Ballast That Chains The Dog To His Vomit.

You Would Do Better, At Least No Worse, To Obliterate Texts Than To Blacken Margins, To Fill In The Holes Of Words Till All Is Blank And Flat And The Whole Ghastly Business Looks Like What It Is, Senseless, Speechless, Issueless Misery.

I Tried To Groan, Help! Help! But The Tone That Came Out Was That Of Polite Conversation.

The Pendulum Oscillates Between These Two Terms: Suffering-that Opens A Window On The Real And Is The Main Condition Of The Artistic Experience, And Boredom ... That Must Be Considered As The Most Tolerable Because The Most Durable Of Human Evils.

Against The Charitable Gesture There Is No Defence.