“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“È fortuna che oggi non tira vento. Strano, in qualche modo si ha sempre l’impressione di essere fortunati, che una qualche circostanza, magari infinitesima, ci trattenga sull’orlo della disperazione e ci conceda di vivere. Piove, ma non tira vento. Oppure, piove e tira vento: ma sai che stasera tocca a te il supplemento di zuppa, e allora anche oggi trovi la forza di tirar sera. O ancora, pioggia, vento, e la fame consueta, e allora pensi che se proprio dovessi, se proprio non ti sentissi piú altro nel cuore che sofferenza e noia, come a volte succede, che pare veramente di giacere sul fondo; ebbene, anche allora noi pensiamo che se vogliamo, in qualunque momento, possiamo pur sempre andare a toccare il reticolato elettrico, o buttarci sotto i treni in manovra, e allora finirebbe di piovere.”
― Survival in Auschwitz
― Survival in Auschwitz
“You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!”
― Hero
― Hero
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.”
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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