Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead. . . . It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.
We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it