Occupation: Essayist Birth: April 26, 1895 Death: September 21, 1972
A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her..
We like someone because. We love someone although..
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenome….
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them..
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end..
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page..
The United States is evil..
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness.
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world..
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world..
It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another..
Religion is the venereal disease of mankind..
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word..
The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world..
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse ….
Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States ha….
Great ideas are not charitable..
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim..
We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion..