Child of All Nations

Imitating is only a chapter in the life of all children. But then there comes a day when children are fully grown. People should prepare themselves to confront that day. Don’t be startled, or shocked and overcome, if on that day reality rears up before you larger than you could ever imagine.

All people and races began by imitating before they could stand by themselves. People should indeed learn to get used to new realities. Reality doesn’t go away because people don’t like it, or just because they insult it.

The busier people become with their searching and their discoveries, the clearer it becomes that they are in fact being pursued by the anxiousness of their own hearts

And love, like every other object and situation, has its shadow. And love’s shadow is called pain. There is nothing without its shadow except light itself.

“Everything that happens under the sun is the business of thinking people.”

“Very easy. Do you think your life is more valuable than that of my wife?”

But the cheat remains a cheat, the liar remains a liar, even with his science and his learning.

But be very careful, because time keeps moving on, whether we like it or not

Amongst ourselves—if all we want to do is hurl insults—it has to be acknowledged that we all don’t stand equally tall; with stupid insults we will only strike back at ourselves

How strange it was if every glory was obtained only at the cost of the suffering of others.