"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

"There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty."

Literary nonsense -"Sometimes this kind of writing is inaccurately referred to as "nonsense verse", which is inaccurate not because nonsense verse does not exist, but because nonsense can appear in non-verse forms."  love always, wikipedia which as im told by my teachers is not a reliable source, which I would argue what is?

 

"to feel that we exist, even though in pain. It is the 'craving void' which drives us to gaming, to battle, to Travel,-to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment"

"resist the temptation to pick the world up and shake it. shake yourself instead."