The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
独处的能力就是爱的能力。这对你来说可能看起来矛盾,但其实不是。这是一个存在的真理:只有那些能够独处的人才能爱,才能分享,才能深入另一个人的内心深处——而不占有对方,不依赖对方,不将对方物化,不对对方上瘾。
外交并不是被动地适应变化,而是积极主动地塑造变化。
我是在书本上而不是在课堂上认识伟大的知识分子的,这很自然。我的家人都喜欢这些东西,通过纪律、知识和自我控制来出人头地。