I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.
Anything that consoles is fake.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
The best thing about being God would be making the heads.
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
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