Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ↗
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. ↗
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally. ↗
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world. ↗
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗