To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past. Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which … can be called “public” or “popular” opinion. What is Philosophy?
“She was pressing her brown, sun-tanned face to the bars and smiling as hard as she could. I thought she was looking very pretty, but somehow couldn’t bring myself to tell her so.” Stranger
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." The Analects of Confucius
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