You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.
Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.
It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.