“The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad .”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Sami had been born into a world where everything could break. Real houses crumbled, fell apart. Nothing was solid in Sami’s world.”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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