The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

The I is always in the field of the Other.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.