“Pleasure and Pain are represented as twins,” Leonardo wrote on the drawing, “because there never is one without the other.”
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.”
― Seven Years in Tibet
― Seven Years in Tibet
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