Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
Genius is talent provided with ideals.
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
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