Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way. Marriage is the result of the longing for the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue. We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. Paradise is open to all kinds of hearts. It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings... |