Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.
We do not randomly choose each other. We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.
Only the complete absence of sex can be considered a sexual deviation, everything else is a matter of degree.
Masturbation is one of the primary abodes, the ‘primary addiction’. Subsequent addictions — alcohol tobacco, morphine are only its substitutes. [[marker/!!-复读]]
~? But I’m not ‘addict to masturbation, nor do I really addict to alcohol, tobacco, etc.~ [[marker/?]]
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
Perfect, eternal, hate-purified love exists only between the addict and the drug.
A joke makes it possible to satisfy a lustful or hostile instinct despite an obstacle in its path.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
The energetic and successful men and women are the ones who succeed in transforming the fantasies of desire into reality.
Man and woman should not strive to eliminate their complexes, but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs their conduct in the world.
We enter the world with loneliness and lonely leave it.
All adaptation is partial death, the disappearance of a particle of individuality.
We adults don’t understand children, also do we not understand our own childhood anymore.
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nersery.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
~Interesting. The sentence justified anger. But soften in means. So this is a step forward to civility. Also it justified imperfection during evolution.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with collapse through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
No mortal is capable of keeping a secret. If his lips are silent, his fingertips speak.
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Solitude is independence.
You must find your dream, no matter how old you may be, then the way becomes easy.
What many people call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret ourselves.
Seeking means: to have a goal, but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
If we can make a person happier and more cheerful, we should do it anyway, whether he asks us to or not.
Youth ends when egotism does. Maturity begins when one lives for others.
Lack of friends is a sign that a man has may hobbies, as well as time.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Only the thoughts that we live have value.
Opinions mean nothing. They may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
Man is an onion consisting of hundreds of skins, a fabric consisting of many threads.
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.