He told me that it isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not. - Cesare Pavese

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.