Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.