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.
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
We obtain things when we no longer want them.
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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