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You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.
The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.
We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.
But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.
I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.
We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.