Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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