10 inspirational v.s. naipaul quotes on success

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Non-fiction can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.