“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain. Still, he thought, looking out across the meadow, still, the joy would be worth the pain—if, indeed, they went together. If”
― A Severe Mercy
― A Severe Mercy
“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun,”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“If there were a choice—and he suspected there was—a choice between, on the one hand, the heights and the depths and, on the other hand, some sort of safe, cautious middle way, he, for one, here and now chose the heights and the depths.”
― A Severe Mercy
― A Severe Mercy
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