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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.
all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.
Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.
I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.
You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.
Great, now I’ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.
I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.