
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1950)
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”
Wolf Larsen, Chapter Six
The Sea-Wolf (1904)
“Teach him he must deny himself.”
Lee to a mother who asked him to bless her son, as quoted in R. E. Lee : A Biography, Vol. 4 (1935) by Douglas Southall Freeman, p. 505
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
G. Stanley Hall. From Generation to Generation http://books.google.com/books?id=b-UtAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Every+theory+of+love+from+Plato+down+teaches+that+each+individual+loves+in+the+other+sex+what+he+lacks+in+himself%22&pg=PA250#v=onepage, The American Magazine, July 1908
As quoted in "Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj" at Sidi Muhammad Press http://www.sufimaster.org/teachings/husayn.htm
Context: Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.