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The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.
Could others hold him?" His face remains the same. "There are no others. You're the only one." I swallow. "I can hold him.
Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.
If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.
We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.
Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!
Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!
If you are living in a beautiful house surrounded by beautiful environment, you know not where to stay, inside or outside?
Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!
Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!
I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.