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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.
I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.
I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.
The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.
England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.
He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.