We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima do...
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his nor...
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror...
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.
The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious...
She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.
It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerat...
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy on her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue...
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.