"This actual world of what is knowable,..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.”

“Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.”

“The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.”

“There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.”

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”

“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.”

“Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.”

“There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing”