Favorite quotations

    If we just take people as they are . . . we make them worse;  but, if we treat them not as they are but as they should be, we help...

      In the night, unable to sleep on the overcrowded train, it became clear that he was really going for the sake of his childhood, ...

That is quite uncomplicated--very simple and wholesome. I would compare it with things that are least demonic or romantic, like the dai...

'Don't you think that a great yearning is like the birds' heading south -- a sign that somewhere life is in bloom?' ...

Don't talk to me of civilization and its decline: the gods still reign. These lines, translated by Julia Vickers, come from a...