Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 1, 1879 Death: June 7, 1970
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's..
Nonsense and beauty have close connections..
There's never any great risk as long as you have money..
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested..
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time..
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I..
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth..
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys..
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country..
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood..
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon..
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into….
One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried..
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us..
You confuse what's important with what's impressive..
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate..
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choo….
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?.
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along..
It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts..