Loneliness is a lifelong companion, an established fact. Instead of denying it, fighting it, and avoiding it needlessly, you’d better accept it, let it protect you from going home in the crowd, and let it accompany you to breakfast on Saturday morning and tidy up the sunshine.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

解释：拥有绝色美貌的人，完全能够祸乱人的情志。

I think about the ways in which abstraction can be a form of figuration.