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It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.
All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.
Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.
All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.
In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.
It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.