“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s
why.”
“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.”
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
“To be alive at all is to have scars. ”
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
“Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”
“You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.”
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it.”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.”
“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
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