“Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“If you have a goal to pass a class in university, you have, at least hopefully, objective and well-defined steps by which you can achieve that goal – write an essay, go to class, pass an exam. If you don’t have a final goal, you cannot organize your activities.”
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
“Only tyrants and fools made martyrs. He was certainly no fool. And he was no tyrant either- how could he be, he had suffered a hideous stroke. He was a victim. The victim excuse, where evil is born.”
― Between the Bridge and the River
― Between the Bridge and the River
“I was struck by the ancient, pagan feel of the place. New Orleans doesn't feel like any other American city I've been to. It has an atmosphere like Rome or Istanbul, a sense of the veil being very thin between this world and the world of the fictional and the dead. It is an eerie, haunted, and beautiful place - as any port should be.”
― Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
― Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
“I don’t know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.”
― Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
― Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
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