“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”
“-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid.”
“Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.”
“Find what you want. I will find you.”
“...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.”
“How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.”
“How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?”
“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
“Debemos guardarnos de la confusión en que por contiguity [contiguidad] psicológica, para decirlo igual que los ingleses, muy fácilmente cae un artista: la de creer que él mismo es aquello que él puede representar, concebir, expresar. En realidad ocurre que, si él lo fuera, no lo podría en absoluto representar, concebir, expresar.”
“Table of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19”
“some battles aren’t fought with fists, some are fought by just standing up and facing it, facing the truth, learning that what others have done to you doesn’t have to make you who are you. Only you can do that—you have the power to say “enough” and walk away, truly walk away.”
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