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- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply…
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me…
- I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
- No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted…
- The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not…
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on…
- There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent…
- We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and…
- Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
- I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those…
- In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have…
- Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
- The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were…
- You cannot save people. You can only love them.
- I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires…
- The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you…
- Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing…
- The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all…
- Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
- Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks…
- I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first…
- My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and…
- I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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