What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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