Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has… — Vittorio De Sica Copy Share Image
