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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.
I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.
I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?
Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?
I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.
When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.
There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming.
A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.
You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.