To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.