Life and Existence

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ENEMY OF ALL ART, BE IT ACTING, WRITING, PAINTING, OR LIVING ITSELF, WHICH IS THE GREATEST ART OF ALL.

THE HISTORY OF ART IS THE HISTORY OF REVIVALS.

ALL ART IS QUITE USELESS.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKING, I SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN.

May you live all the days of your life.

LIFE’S A BITCH. YOU’VE GOT TO GO OUT AND KICK ASS.

I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES. MY LIFE IS SO UNTIDY AND HE’S SO NEAT.

I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES. MY LIFE IS SO UNTIDY AND HE’S SO NEAT.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible.

THOUGH A GOOD DEAL IS TOO STRANGE TO BE BELIEVED, NOTHING IS TOO STRANGE TO HAVE HAPPENED.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

YOU ASK ME WHAT LIFE IS. THAT’S LIKE ASKING WHAT A CARROT IS. A CARROT IS A CARROT, AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE TO KNOW.

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

A GOOD NOVEL TELLS US THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS HERO; BUT A BAD NOVEL TELLS US THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS AUTHOR.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.