States are inherently aggressive and expansionist.

译文：绝交时不以恶语伤人。

In the end, all stories are about the search for meaning.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

失去一个父母可能被视为不幸；失去两个则看起来像是粗心大意。

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

最重要的，拥有跟随内心与直觉的勇气，你的内心与直觉多少已经知道你真正想要成为什么样的人。

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."