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If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!
Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!
In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!
Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!
We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.
Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done!
Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.
Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.
God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.
nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.
The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
Lord, bend me, or I shall rot. Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break. Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.