“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
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“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”
― A Hora da Estrela
― A Hora da Estrela
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