My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature

I permit myself to say this because, when you reach your final destination, you will finally discover a place of which you can say, “I can truly rest peacefully here!”; you will have peace of mind and you will gain confidence in yourself for your whole life.

Of course, the mere fact of going forward does not mean that you have taken the right direction.

It is not a question of working only for the good of the country or of your family; it is something that is absolutely essential for happiness.

gained a great deal of strength from this period of introspection and it prompted me to ask who these Westerners were.

But at that time, I had the intellectual level of a child and the world around me was hardly more advanced.

began to understand that if I did not abandon the borrowed plumes, that if I did not go back to something more authentic, the anxiety within me would never disappear.

a culture obsessed with the issues regarding belonging and identity that arise from rapid change and dissociation from one’s past.