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- Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be…
- I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the…
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions…
- The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to…
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very…
- When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them…
- What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what…
- I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
- My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
- I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
- In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their…
- Don't let them tell us stories
- But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation.…
- I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with…
- I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
- You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
- Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for…
- Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster