Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams. The Zahir
It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them. Beware of Pity
History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Virtue never has been as respectable as money. Innocents Abroad
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