No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. The Alchemist
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. … An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility History as a System
Only the thoughts that we live out have any value. Demian
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