So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
Μην μπερδεύεις μια μεμονωμένη ήττα με μια τελική ήττα.
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