We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
We never remember days, only moments.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
To know the world, one must construct it
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