When I was a child, when I ...

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Quotes from the same author

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.