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Witsky
Small doses of wit.
- Isn’t it cool that there’s a frozen leopard in Kilimanjaro?
- Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;
- Whenever I thought of you I couldn’t help thinking of a particular incident which seemed to me very important. You made a remark about ‘national character’ that shocked me by its primitiveness. I then thought: what is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., & if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life, if it does not make you more conscientious than any journalist in the use of the DANGEROUS phrases such people use for their own ends.
- Every boy, he said, has a little sweetheart.
- “I’m nobody,” Dickinson says. “Are you nobody, too? / Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell…”
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superfluous worries.
- It is the pleasant hour when lamps are lit.