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The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
The only true voyage of discovery would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Je est un autre. Si le cuivre s'éveille clairon, il n'y a rien de sa faute. Cela m'est évident: j'assiste à l'éclosion de ma pensée: je la regarde, je l'écoute: je lance un coup d'archet: la symphonie fait son remuement dans les profondeurs, ou vient d'un bond sur la scène.
Je est un autre. Si le cuivre s'éveille clairon, il n'y a rien de sa faute.
I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.