If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
To say I love you one must know first how to say the I.
So I want to say that of all the people I have known, you are the only person I regret leaving behind.
If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.
I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number...
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could n...
A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men;it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll...
We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - f...
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. T...