An awful lot of hokum is talked about love, you know. An importance is ascribed to it that is entirely at variance with fact. People talk as though it were self-evidently the greatest of human values....
Aloof on her mountain top she considered the innumerable activities of men. She had a wonderful sense of freedom from all earthly ties, and it was such an ecstasy that nothing in comparison with it ha...
After all, it's not my fault. I can't force myself to believe. If there is a God after all and he punishes me because I honestly don't believe in Him I can't help it.
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to gover...
Peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.
Every year hundreds of books, many of considerable merit, pass unnoticed. Each one has taken the author months to write, he may have had it in his mind for years; he has put into it something of himse...
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
When they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth.
They threw this eager vitality of theirs into a vehement striving after the ineffable.
One could do a dastardly thing if one chose, but it was contemptible to regret it afterwards.
He knew that he was at the mercy of his emotions: an accidental kindness touched him so much that sometimes he did not venture to speak in order not to betray the unsteadiness of his voice.
Eschew
Don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when th...
[...] Pe măsură ce o să crești o să descoperi că primul lucru necesar pentru a transforma universul într-un spațiu în care să poți trăi este să recunoști egoismul inevitabil al omenirii. Dumneata ceri...
You’re so sharp you’ll cut yourself if you don’t look out,
You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation,...
You want to taste sugar, you don’t want to become sugar. What is individuality but the expression of our egoism? Until the soul has shed the last trace of that it cannot become one with the Absolute.
You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying.