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Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.
...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.
If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that.
There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure.
We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.
Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.