Amor Fati

Why do I struggle and strive in this narrow, restricted frame, when life, all life and its joys, is open to me?

“He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.”

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

“Start by looking for what is valid in every human being.”

“I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say.”

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

I speak to you with my whole soul at the edge of my lips.

“Words that come from the heart are always simple.”

What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

One thinks one has cut oneself off from the world, but it is enough to see an olive tree upright in the golden dust, or beaches glistening in the morning sun, to feel this separation melt away.