Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Hate is a lack of imagination.
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
When we are not sure, we are alive.
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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