“Makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich.”

But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

Not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

To be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

Like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.

It is widely held in high regard.

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares

Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

Which one will it be? Time alone will tell.

Life has now taught me that love for things,

The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom.

I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death;

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures…

People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down

And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

Im really good at writing almost hits.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.

All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.

My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.