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 capable of love, of sharing, of going 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.

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most politically dangerous part of human nature.

朗兰兹纲领是离散和连续之间的桥梁。

海洋是伟大的统一者，因为所有的生命都来自它，并最终回归于它。

I'm the reason your dark won't fade.