"La literatura nos permite vivir mil vidas en una sola."
"Every role I take is a part of me, and I give a part of me to every role."
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.