“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
“If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.”
“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”
“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”