But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting. - Cesare Pavese

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?