Why, it seemed to me I had lost the most of myself; and there was left only a brain which played with ideas, and a body that went delicately down pleasant ways. And I could not believe as my fellows believed, nor could I love them, nor could I detect anything in aught they said or did save their exceeding folly: for I had lost their cordial common faith of what use they made of half-hours and months and years... I had lost faith in the importance of my own actions, too. There was a little time of which the passing might be made endurable; beyond gaped unpredictable darkness: and that was all there was of certainty anywhere.
James Branch CabellTag: evil-dream-hopeless-lost-love
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
James Branch CabellTag: humor society life-lessons personality
alcohol played the midwife
James Branch CabellTag: alcohol cynical-humor
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.
James Branch CabellTag: life life-lessons wine cynical-humor
Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic
James Branch CabellTag: cynicism death dead aesthetics
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
James Branch CabellTag: atheism universe agnosticism
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
James Branch CabellTag: reading literature
To submit is the great lesson. I too was once a dreamer: and in dreams there are lessons. But to submit, without dreaming any more, is the great lesson; to submit, without either understanding or repining, and without demanding of life too much of beauty or of holiness, and without shirking the fact that this universe is under no least bond ever to grant us, upon either side of the grave, our desires. To do that, my son, does not satisfy and probably will not ever satisfy a Puysange. But to do that is wisdom.
James Branch CabellTag: wisdom
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