Life

“The trouble with attempting to master your time, it turns out, is that time ends up mastering you.”

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“... I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.”

“Poor silly Kraus. If he only knew that it is not true, that I have really dreamt nothing about him, that he is nothing to me except for a brief moment, nothing like everything is nothing down here, except the hunger inside and the cold and the rain around.”

‘... Until one day

“He does not yet know that it is better to be beaten, because one does not normally die of blows, but one does of exhaustion, and badly, and when one grows aware of it, it is already too late.”

“Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening, perhaps infinitesimal, stops is crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live.”

“When it rains we like to cry.”

Everybody wants something...without having any idea how to obtain it and the really intriguing aspect of the situation is that nobody quite knows how to achieve what he desires. But because I know what I want and what the others are capable of I am completely prepared.

For men become myths, not by what they know, nor even by what they achieve, but by the tasks they set for themselves.

“...forgot that no power can agree to negotiate about what it considers the condition of its existence.”

“...timid men are more likely to be moved to trepidation than to daring in the face of great opportunities.”

Kissenger argues that peace, when desperately sought is difficult to attain and undermines stability, whereas the acceptance of “legitimacy” helps create stability.

“Lived there, saw everything, and condemned nothing.”

“He’s one of those who don’t need millions but need to resolve their thought.”

“Here is a commandment: seek happiness in sorrow.”