“One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.”

The Art of Writing

Sec. 232
Variant: We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner.
Source: The Gay Science (1882)

North to the Orient (1935) Ch. 19

Source: Meditations

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

Source: Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), “Introduction” (p. xiii)

Source: I Capture the Castle

The Book of Delusions (1936)