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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.
It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
We are a regional party, and our interests are for the people of Odisha.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.
I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.