Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 29, 1882 Death: January 31, 1944
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceiv….
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light ….
Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man….
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself..
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life..
An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, th….
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes..
Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickl….
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acety….
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace..
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made..
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon..
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light..
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut..
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal..
Close your eyes, all you see is yours..
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others..
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life..
Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?.
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?.