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It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.
It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?
His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.