Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other
Little girls ought to be taught and brought up with boys, so that they might be always together. A woman ought to be trained so that she may be able, like a man, to recognise when she's wrong, or she...
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting, it's only they who are wanted. The more of such people there are, the sooner the Kingdom of God wil...
Existence is tedious, anyway.
Conciseness is the sister of talent.
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characteriz...
In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist...
My own experience is that once a story has been written one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything...
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.