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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.
I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.
Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.
It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.
Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.
Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy
In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin
Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.
There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.
You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.