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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
I think of Mr Modi as a very hard-working person.
Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
so few in reality are the true necessities of man
I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
With a little effort, she could get up by herself
A man's immortality can be found in his children.
A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.
Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.
Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
Music is an important part of my writing process.
Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
Any one can hold the helm when the seas are calm.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
To die at the command of another is to die twice.
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
An excess of science will leave none of us alive.