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West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
What have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself?
When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.
When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.
Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.
It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I am quite fluent in Odiya. I understand the people of Odisha, and they understand me.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.
When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.