I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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