However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel...
I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an...
It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. (The Troll)
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted b...
Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.
Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot...
We all have the capacity to do hurtful things, but we differ from one another in terms of scale-how much we can hurt others, how far we will go to make a statement about our beliefs, how remorseful we...
What she really wanted [...] was [...] to experience every emotion to the limit so she could go beyond every limit.
Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
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