Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. The
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.
Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.
All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its p...
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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...
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
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.
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the...
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.
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
They had grown in three years and were now long-legged, skinny, vivacious little creatures, with little at present of their mother’s beauty, but with nice manners and an insatiable curiosity.
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...
The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellow...
She loved three things — a joke, aglass of wine, and a handsome man.
Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the left.
People don't want reasons to do what they'd like to. They want excuses.
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will sur...