Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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