Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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