Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. - Arthur Schnitzler
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.
- Arthur Schnitzler
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? - Arthur Schnitzler
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if … - Arthur Schnitzler
It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if …
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. - Arthur Schnitzler
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything. - Arthur Schnitzler
To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death. - Arthur Schnitzler
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically. - Arthur Schnitzler
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. - Arthur Schnitzler
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. - Arthur Schnitzler
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
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