Every Experience Has Its Element

Youth Ends When Egotism Does; Maturity Begins When One Lives For Others.

I Realize That Some People Will Not Believe That A Child Of Little More Than Ten Years Is Capable Of Having Such Feelings. My Story Is Not Intended For Them. I Am Telling It To Those Who Have A Better Knowledge Of Man. The Adult Who Has Learned To Translate A Part Of His Feelings Into Thoughts Notices The Absence Of These Thoughts In A Child, And Therefore Comes To Believe That The Child Lacks These Experiences, Too. Yet Rarely In My Life Have I Felt And Suffered As Deeply As At That Time.

Some Of Us Think Holding On Makes Us Strong; But Sometimes It Is Letting Go.

Yes, I Am Going Into The Woods; I Am Going Into The Unity Of All Things.

The Bourgeois Today Burns As Heretics And Hangs As Criminals Those To Whom He Erects Monuments Tomorrow.