“Herein lies the crux of the matter. To stand face to face with insecurity is still not to understand it. To understand it, you must not face it but be it.”
“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”
“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”
“To learn a thing was to know a thing; to know a thing was to understand a thing; to understand a thing was to face it without fear.”
“YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU LOVE SOMEONE AND FOR THAT PERSON TO SLAP YOU RIGHT IN YOUR FACE”