Randolph Bourne — American Writer born on May 30, 1886, died on December 22, 1918

Randolph Silliman Bourne was a progressive writer and "leftist intellectual" born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after his death... (wikipedia)

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.