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“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on […]
September 30, 2013
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness […]
April 23, 2013
On May 10th of 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald sends a letter to Ernest Hemingway asking his opinion of his recently published novel: Tender is the Night, Hemingway as always answers in a blunt and crude way but full of truths and tips in writing. Key West 28 May 1934 Dear Scott: I liked it and […]
February 22, 2013
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and […]
The Eloquent Madness 
November 1, 2013
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