You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. — Quoted in Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood - Rebecca West

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

God, what a life this is,” he said, “full of presciences that don't do us any good, full of self-consciousness that tortures us by telling us just what sort of hole we’re in, but never how to get out of it.

Thought that is worth calling thought has no mercy on itself, that is the dreadful proof of its quality.