Better To Dream Than To Be.

I Feel Closer Ties And More Intimate Bonds With Certain Characters In Books, With Certain Images I’ve Seen In Engravings, Than With Many Supposedly Real People With The Metaphysical Absurdity Known As ‘flesh And Blood’. In Fact, ‘flesh And Blood’ Describes Them Very Well: They Resemble Cuts Of Meat Laid Out On The Butcher’s Marble Slab, Dead Creatures Bleeding As Though Still Alive.

But My Sadness Is Comforting Because It’s Right And Natural And Because It’s What The Soul Should Feel When It Already Thinks It Exists And The Hand Pick Flowers And The Soul Takes No Notice.

To Live Strikes Me As A Metaphysical Mistake Of Matter, A Dereliction Of Inaction.

Every Man Who Deserves To Be Famous Knows It Is Not Worth The Trouble.

La Literatura Es La Manera Más Agradable De Ignorar La Vida.