“If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
― The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
― The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.'
'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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