“Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.”
― A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
― A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479”
― Oblomov
p. 479”
― Oblomov
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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