“Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.”
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The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.