Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Always be a little unexpected.
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
The best revenge is to live well.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
You are Beautiful when you are happy
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Any place that we love becomes our world.
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
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