The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may read more

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality read more

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.