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In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.
Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
It doesn't matter what kind of world we live in as long as we have each other.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.