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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. The Books in My Life.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison eith this order.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - The Wisdom of the Heart.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.