“It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.”
― To Have and Have Not
― To Have and Have Not
“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“There is a distance that cannot be measured in kilometers or even in light years; it's the distance born from change.”
― Lacci
― Lacci
“To forgive, there must have been a wound; and to be wounded, there must have been the gatherings of pride. There is no generosity of heart as long as there is a referential memory, the "me" and the "mine.”
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
“You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.”
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
― Commentaries on Living: First Series
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