You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
Celui qui se relève de ses faux pas aura gagné l’estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu’on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.
Get a grip on yourself. there’s only one god here on earth, and that’s you. If you don’t like the world, make one you like better.
Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.
We’ve already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we’ve forgotten it.
…we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us…
Of course, I’m aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred….
For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.
Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?
And yet we were very much alike; we’d lost our souls, and we were ready to destroy others.
If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won’t soothe his soul.