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A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!
...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.
The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.
I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.
People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.
deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.
Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.