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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?
The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.
Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.
Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.
The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!