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It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.
Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.
When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.
He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.
if you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.
Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
I'm really interested in women of different generations... I think there is no one female experience.
You may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes!
With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!
We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!
Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!
Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!
Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!
Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!