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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.
Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.
I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.