Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.

Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

I think it's always healthy to replace the CEO every 10 years.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

Those who deny their own feelings tend to deny other people's.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

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