“You can have a zillion nothings and still have nothing”

“Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n’y a de continuellement bon que l’habitude d’un travail entêté. Il s’en dégage un opium qui engourdit l’âme…Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…”

“I was born with nothing and I still have nothing. And tomorrow is nothing.”

“Grief weighs nothing but you still have to drag it around.”

“Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.”

“When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.”

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”