Different person Quote by Huxley, Aldous

“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”

— Paul Bourget

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

“His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann

“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither…

— Plutarch

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one’s self to one’s own ends might be…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who…

— Paul Bourget

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous

“In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the…

— Ármin Vámbéry