"The last thing that we find in..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”

“For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those mostremote from it?”

“It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.”

“The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.”

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

“We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.”

“If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.”

“Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”

“Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.”