Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. Fragment
The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Return to the Simple Life
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. The Waves
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure The Alchemist
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