Books are cold but sure friends.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-ho...
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
أو تدرين يا فتاة ما الشقاء بمعنى كلمة الشقاء؟ إنه أن يكون الإنسان إنساناً ولا إنسان، و رجلا مكفوفاً عن مصائر الرجال، فيحب ولا ينال، ثم يخسر دينه في سبيل لذة الوصال، فلا يلقى بعد خسرانه منها إلا الصدود...
While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatali...
We must be brief.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God.
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by...
Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.
Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.