Micko

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

“Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.”

“The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.”

“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”

“The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.”

“To construct oneself, to know oneself—are these two distinct acts or not?”

“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.”

“Sometime I think; and sometime I am.”

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

“to live means to lack something at every moment”

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”

“God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely.”

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”