If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect