Life and Existence

… Nessun maggior dolore,

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita.

i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

Behind a frowning providence

God moves in a mysterious way

We perished, each alone:

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

The horror! The horror!

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

A sadder and a wiser man,

And a thousand thousand slimy things

We were the first that ever burst

It is an ancient Mariner,

But oh! each visitation

Life is a horizontal fall.

Life is a horizontal fall.

In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,

Thou shalt have one God only; who