The Purpose Of Life Is To Be

If Your Everyday Life Appears To Be Unworthy Subject Matter, Do Not Complain To Life. Complain To Yourself, Lament That You Are Not Poet Enough To Call Up Its Wealth.

To Have A Childhood Means To Live A Thousand Lives Before The One.

Read As Little As Possible Of Literary Criticism - Such Things Are Either Partisan Opinions, Which Have Become Petrified And Meaningless, Hardened And Empty Of Life, Or Else They Are Just Clever Word-games, In Which One View Wins Today, And Tomorrow The Opposite View. Works Of Art Are Of An Infinite Solitude, And No Means Of Approach Is So Useless As Criticism.

Shattered People Are Best Represented By Bits And Pieces.

Be Ahead Of All Farewells As If They Were Behind You, Like The Winter That Is Just Departing.