“In that moment I understood what that tremor of the heart had been. It was a kind of childhood longing that had always remained – and would forever remain –... Read more
“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.” ― Simone de... Read more
“Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.” ― André Gide, The Immoralist Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature... Read more
“There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It... Read more
“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise... Read more
“We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. We have overcome all enemies... Read more
“So long as one is happy, one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work … I became aware that our love was... Read more
“True religion? All the religions are true insofar as they make those people who profess them live spiritually, insofar as they console them for having been born to die, and... Read more
