"The heavy armor becomes the light dress..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”
“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
More on Childhood
“For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping”
“Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.”
“In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."”
More on Pain
“Every need brings what's needed.Pain bears its cure like a child.Having nothing produces provisions.Ask a difficult question,And the marvelous answer appears.”
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.”
“That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.”