“But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.”
“You can only possess beauty through understanding it.”
“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”
“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
“Only ideas won by walking have any value.”