Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
“Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.”
“A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.”
“Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.”
“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”
“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
“Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.”
“He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.”
“Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.”
