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You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.
I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.
I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.
It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.
The translator constantly learns new things about himself.
Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand.
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.
When adultery walks in, everything worth having walks out.
Clothes maketh the man. They don't make you some other man.
The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.
If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.
Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.
The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.
You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.
How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?