As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

We read because we are essentially alone.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?