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- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under…
- The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
- We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
- One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
- One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
- True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
- If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a…
- Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
- Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
- The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another…
- If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
- Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
- The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
- One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the…
- When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best…
- In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death,…
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of…
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication…
- Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
- Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are,…
- You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of…
- And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom…
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