Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.
When in doubt, choose greatness.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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