Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men
possessions
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
light meeting tso-love
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
trouble
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
inspirational suffering
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.
writing
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
queer vice
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
people
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
leisure life
Novels are longer than life.
life
With renunciation life begins.
life renunciation
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
language thetimes time
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
thetimes time
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
man
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
self
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
tso-love