“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a companion. No matter how much you long for it, regardless of how much you close your eyes and dream of them – you will still remain alone. For lives you built a home, you built a family, and then you lost it – and all through that you have always remained alone. Not even slightly has your aloneness been ever affected. So one who has known, one who has accepted that he is alone, for him there is an indication in this sutra: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. Only being is yours, nothing else.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
“Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” Tony”
― The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
― The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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