Moralists have no place in an art gallery..

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

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….

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 ….

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

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….

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move..

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

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

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

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness..

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

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

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

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….

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds..

One should never condemn what one cannot understand..

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness..

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason..

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

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….