الحياة هى صراع الجميع ضد الجميع. - Milan Kundera

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.

Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.