His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
Илюзия е, че младостта е щастлива, илюзия на онези, които са я загубили; младите страдат от безброй лъжливи представи, които са им внушавани, и всеки път, щом се докоснат до истината, тя ги наранява....
We cannot get it out of our heads that there is something comic in taking art so seriously.
When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things this person or that did with his body.
The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Before...
People don't want reasons to do what they'd like to. They want excuses.
Life had no meaning. On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been...
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and e...
It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.
I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his li...
I suppose you're going to say that I'm not a good mother.'
He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.
Deprecatingly, fully conscious of his audacity in asking so busy a man to waste his time on a neophyte’s puny effort, he begged for criticism and guidance.
Self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matt...