A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people..

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordina….

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth..

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject..

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist..

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it.….

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts..

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death..

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer..

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie..

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives..

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace..

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst..

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life..

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it..

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius..

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the wo….

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even….

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse,….

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere..

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours..