“He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death.
In place of death there was light.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
In place of death there was light.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Anyone lucky enough to have options should keep them open. Don't enter the workforce already looking for the exit. Don't put on the breaks. Accelerate. Keep a foot on the gas pedal until a decision must be made. That's the only way to ensure that when that day comes, there will be a real decision to make.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
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