Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.
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