The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and fee...
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.
If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best...
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.
The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.
The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.