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- Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing…
- Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still…
- The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that…
- The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
- Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the…
- The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
- The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse…
- You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
- What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile…
- I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster