To know the world, one must construct it

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.