This isn't the one sentence everyone should read.

Power depends on deference to authority.*

Knowledge depends on a fixed** point of reference.

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*Authority, from author, from L. auctor, "one who causes to grow."
**from L. fixus, "fixed, fast, immovable; established, settled."

From the courthouse roof,
a crow drops a stone of flint.
The churchbell rings.

Let him work.

I spent all this time thinking about it.

I will at some point learn to take everything seriously

at the same time
for a few hours at least.

Imagine the metaphysicians reaching a consensus.

(There must be thousands of them!)

"The mind is the place of vague things." (Valéry)

In the world, they are absolutely precise.

Writers know exactly what they're doing.

People are entitled to live in the world they understand. They do well, however, to obey their history.

What is there?

The ocean exists.

It also inspires.

The ocean asserts itself and admonishes us.

We stand on the shore and look to the horizon.
It is what it is. We must become ourselves.

The ocean has its reasons, and its passions.