By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

"Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación del cuerpo, sino circulando con una dulzura y sin embargo regresando sin fin a través de China.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.