The terrible simplicity of people who have not yet been hurt.
I would welcome dangers. One must not expect to avoid suffering.
To explore the depths of one's own repulsive nature is more than irresistible - it is necessary.
Few people of attainment take easily to a plan of self-improvement. Some discover very early their perfection cannot endure the insult. Others find their intellectual pleasure lies in the theory, not the practice.
Places yet unvisited can become an obsession, promising final peace, all goodness.
As if to rot were avoidable. By moving. But it was not. We rot by living.
I suggest you wring it [hope] out for yourself, which, in the end, is all that is possible for any man.
The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
Mediocrity is not a final and irrevocable state; rather it is a creative source of endless variety and subtlety.
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