“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenBookEndsCareSoundNaturalAnimalWatchesDogLonelinessLifetimeStriveCardsAbout YourselfContinentsAvoidingBotheredDeckAlphabetShuffleAbhorrenceDeck Of Cards Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.” PeopleKnowsEndsKnowledgeLifetimeSelf DiscoveryAbout YourselfAviatorDeck Of Cards Book:The Illustrated West with the Night Source: The Illustrated West with the Night
“But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.” LittlesEndsGood PlaceOmenGood Omens Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.” IfsKnowsMenYearsEndsBlackWaterOne DaySicknessNightmareChillFeverKidneysMalaria Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
