You can only understand the present age when it is past..

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other..

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history..

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness..

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness..

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move..

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powe….

People never think about words, they only feel them..

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures..

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in ….

The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine doe….

History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We neve….

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging..

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings..

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear..

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but wit….

Moralists have no place in an art gallery..

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal..

Persecution matures young rebels..

These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of somet….