‘To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.’
‘Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.’
‘Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.’
‘Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.’
‘There’s no sin but stupidity.’
‘Young men want to be faithful and are not. Old men want to be faithless and cannot.’
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Some quotes inside this book:
‘No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.’
‘Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.’
‘I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.’
‘To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.’
‘Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole!’
‘Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.’
‘Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.’
‘A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.’
‘Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.’
‘To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.’
‘In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.’
