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“After a while she got up from where she was and went over the little garden field entire. She was seeking confirmation of the voice and vision, and everywhere she found and acknowledged answers. A personal answer for all other creations except herself. She felt an answer seeking her, but where? When? How? Ch. 2”

“Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. Ch. 2, p. 8”

“Well, Ah see Mouth”

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Ch. 1, p. 9”

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry . It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me. But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first”

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul , nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter”

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

“Crazy for This Democracy”

“Gods always behave like the people who make them. Tell My Horse (1938), Ch. 15, p. 219”

“Ah done been in sorrow 's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus. Lucy in Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Ch. 6, p. 13”

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! Richard, Act V, scene iv.”

“Off with his head! Richard, Act III, scene iv.”

“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Richard, Act I, scene i.”

“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones Shakespeare's epitaph”

“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture Shakespeare's will”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care The Passionate Pilgrim : A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.”

“That deep torture may be called a hell, When more is felt than one hath power to tell. The Rape of Lucrece .”

“Time 's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light . The Rape of Lucrece .”

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. The Rape of Lucrece (1594).”

“The Merry Wives of Windsor”

“started with distillation.”

“Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. As quoted in the National Observer”

“Faulkner Without Fanfare”

“Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat. On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine”

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this ... as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth; in one generation all the Napoleons and Hitlers and Caesars and Mussolinis and Stalins and all the other tyrants who want power and aggrandizement, and the simple politicians and time”

“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books; I wish I had enough sense to see ahead thirty years ago, and like some of the Elizabethans, not signed them. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died. Letter to Malcolm Cowley (February 11, 1949), quoted in William Faulkner: A Critical Essay (1970) by Martin Jarrett”

“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. "The Bear" in The Saturday Evening Post”

“For the holy are susceptible too to evil, even as you and I, signori; they too are helpless before sin without God's aid... and the holy can be fooled by sin as quickly as you or I, signori. Quicker, because they are holy. "Mistral"”

“Setting: Chickasaw land; fictional Yoknapatawpha County , based on Lafayette County, Mississippi . Author nationality: American. First published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Curtis Publishing Company ).”

“Man was not made to sweat.”

“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion. Starting from Paumanok. 7”

“I will write the evangel”

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere”

“Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!”

“I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings. Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II”

“There was a kind of labor agitator here today”

“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”

“The Spanish Element in Our Nationality,”

“Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War”

“I have just this moment heard from the front”

“Only the most ignorant people can close their eyes to the bourgeois nature of the democratic revolution which is now taking place. Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense. "Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution"”

“It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even—if need be—to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs. Reported in "'Left-Wing' Communism, An Infantile Disorder", V. I. Lenin; Selected Works (1938), vol. 10, p. 95.”

“Notwithstanding all the differences in the aims and tasks of the Russian revolution, compared with the French revolution of 1871, the Russian proletariat had to resort to the same method of struggle as that first used by the Paris Commune — civil war. Mindful of the lessons of the Commune, it knew that the proletariat should not ignore peaceful methods of struggle — they serve its ordinary, day-to-day interests, they are necessary in periods of preparation for revolution — but it must never forget that in certain conditions the class struggle assumes the form of armed conflict and civil war; there are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes. “Lessons of the Commune”, in Zagranichnaya Gazeta, No. 2 (23 March 1908), as translated by Bernard Isaacs, Collected Works, Vol. 13, p. 478.”

“We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called socialism. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, "To the Rural Poor", Collected Works, 6, Marxists, p. 366 .”

“Hostility towards non-native sections of the population can only be eliminated when the non-native sections of the population cease to be alien and blend with the general mass of the population. That is the only possible solution of the Jewish problem, and we should support everything that makes for the ending of Jewish isolation. The Position of the Bund in the Party (Iskra, No. 51, October 22, 1903)”

“The Congress decisively rejects terrorism, i.e., the system of individual political assassinations, as being a method of political struggle which is most inexpedient at the present time, diverting the best forces from the urgent and imperatively necessary work of organisation and agitation, destroying contact between the revolutionaries and the masses of the revolutionary classes of the population, and spreading both among the revolutionaries themselves and the population in general utterly distorted ideas of the aims and methods of struggle against the autocracy. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (July–August) [1903], "Second Congress of the RSDLP: Drafts of Minor Resolutions", Collected Works, 6, Marxists .”

“To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, “simple interpretation” is obviously not enough. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (January–March) [1900], "Uncritical Criticism", Collected Works, 3, Marxists .”

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

“Perhaps the profoundest cause of disagreement with the Narodniks is the difference in our fundamental views on social and economic processes. When studying the latter, the Narodnik usually draws conclusions that point to some moral; he does not regard the diverse groups of persons taking part in production as creators of various forms of life; he does not set out to present the sum-total of social and economic relationships as the result of the mutual relations between these groups, which have different interests and different historical roles.”

“The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. Chapter Eight”

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Moments of Being (1976)”

“Language is wine upon the lips. The Waves (1931)”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Three Guineas (1938)”

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters. A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3”

“I am rooted, but I flow. The Waves (1931)”

“Books are the mirrors of the soul. Between the Acts (1941)”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4”

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1”

“Endure the hardships of your present state, and live through unhappy times. The Aeneid, Book 6”

“The greatest wealth is health.”

“Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to remember even these things. The Aeneid, Book 1”

“Time flies never to be recalled.”

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them. The Aeneid, Book 6”

“Fury itself supplies arms.”

“The descent to the underworld is easy; the gate of darkness stands open day and night. The Aeneid, Book 6”

“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Eclogues, X”

“They can because they think they can.”

“I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy came to Italy. The Aeneid, Book 1”

“Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé. Histoire d'un crime. Déposition d'un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint”

“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“The best way to worship God is to love your wife. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief! Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“One can no more pray too much than love too much. Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“Plaidoyer contre la peine de mort”

“La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection. Unpublished notebook from 1845”

“Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme! God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V”

“Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur! These two halves of God , the Pope and the emperor. Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II”

“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. Written at the age of 15 in one of his notebooks ( c . 1817), as quoted in The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897) by Georges Pellissier”

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove”

“The fully realized presence of the haunting is both a major incumbent of the narrative and sleight of hand. One of its purposes is to keep the reader preoccupied with the nature of the incredible spirit world while being supplied a controlled diet of the incredible political world. … Here I wanted the compelling confusion of being there as they (the characters) are; suddenly, without comfort or succor from the”

“Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men. Black Women Writers at Work (1983) by Claudia Tate”

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”

“Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Morrison said this in her talk at the annual meeting of the Ohio Arts Council in Cincinnati in September 1981. Variants, unsourced: If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“Was there anything so loathsome as a wilfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines. Tar Baby”

“At some point in life the world 's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens”

“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about "us"; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Commencement address at Barnard College (May 1979) as quoted in Ms. magazine”

“There is really nothing more to say”

“Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. The Bluest Eye (1969) First lines”

“You can always become better [8] [specific citation needed]”

“I don't want to be the best black golfer, I want to be the best golfer, period. [7] [specific citation needed]”

“We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players. [6] [specific citation needed]”

“My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year. [5] [specific citation needed]”

“I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while! [4] [specific citation needed]”

“I've done it before. It won't be the last time. You're going to go years where you just don't win. That's okay, as long as you keep trying to improve. Interview (14 August 2003)”

“I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams. [3] [specific citation needed]”

“My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start. Tiger Woods in Golf Digest, Sept, 2001.[[2]]”

“I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green. Tiger Woods,ref; St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture by D. Byron Painter [[1]]”

“I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am. Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal, cbsnews.com (2006)”

“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is Jellyorum and its one Idea is to be Useful!! Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber”

“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "Dante" (1929), in Selected Essays (1932), p. 238”

“My general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo”

“... were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. "Journey of the Magi”

“There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. "Journey of the Magi”

“Journey of the Magi”

“A dangerous person to disagree with. On Samuel Johnson , in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century”

“The Contemporary English Novelist”

“Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith. Letter to Richard Aldington”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. " Philip Massinger ", a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood”

“Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied? On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)”

“Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)”

“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)”

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)”

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. The Revolution (18 March 1869)”

“I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. The Revolution, Women's Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)”

“Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. Journal (June 1860)”

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)”

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South. Speech on No Union with Slaveholders (1857)”

“The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self, — do her own individual work — stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength... She will proclaim the "glad tidings of good news" to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop every power of her three fold-nature, to use, worthily every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life. Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) by Chris Dixon, p. 144”

“You think 'Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst', but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you. Joyland”

“YouTube is very addictive. I refused to put it on my favorite places because it's too easy to go there. Stephen King Visits YouTube”

“My Book About A Really Mean Car That Kills People Was Pretty Scary. But Not As Scary As Those Scary Republicans”

“Stephen King's God trip”

“President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun”

“I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson . Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me. As quoted in an edition of I Am Legend”

“I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex”

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Time”

“I work until beer o'clock. On his 9 to 5 writing day, as quoted in Time”

“Interview: Stephen King”

“Which is more to blame, though both may do wrong: she who sins for payment, or he who pays for sin?”

“Divine rose that in gentle culture, you are, with your fragrant subtlety, purple magistracy in beauty, snowy lesson to loveliness”

“The whole world is opinions, of such varied judgments, that what one calls black, another proves is white”

“It is not wisdom to be wise in vain discourse; true wisdom lies in choosing what is sound”

“He who listens and learns, it is only right that he should attend and be silent”

“Reason has never been an offense”

“Even knowledge grows tiresome when it is one's profession”

“If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written much more”

“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less”

“Foolish men who accuse women without reason, not seeing that you are the occasion of the very thing you blame”

“ἐν τῷ φρονεῖν γὰρ μηδὲν ἥδιστος βίος. In knowing nothing is the sweetest life.”

“ὦ παῖ, γένοιο πατρὸς εὐτυχέστερος, τὰ δ᾿ ἄλλ᾿ ὁμοῖος· καὶ γένοι᾿ ἂν οὐ κακός. Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.”

“χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾿ ἀεί· ὅτου δ᾿ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος, οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾿ ἔθ᾿ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ. For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.”

“τῆς ἀναγκαίας τύχης οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν μεῖζον ἀνθρώποις κακόν. Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.”

“ἀλλ᾿ ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή. Nobly to live, or else nobly to die, Befits proud birth.”

“Line 293 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896) Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.”

“γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ σιγὴ φέρει. Woman, silence graces woman.”

“τῶν γὰρ μεγάλων ψυχῶν ἱεὶς οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι· κατὰ δ᾿ ἄν τις ἐμοῦ τοιαῦτα λέγων οὐκ ἂν πείθοι. πρὸς γὰρ τὸν ἔχονθ᾿ ὁ φθόνος ἕρπει. καίτοι σμικροὶ μεγάλων χωρὶς σφαλερὸν πύργου ῥῦμα πέλονται. Yea, point thine arrow at a noble spirit, and thou shalt not miss; but should a man speak such things against me, he would win no faith. 'Tis on the powerful that envy creeps. Yet the small without the great can ill be trusted to guard the walls.”

“ὡς ἡμέρα κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν ἅπαντα τἀνθρώπεια. For a day can humble all human beings, and a day can lift them up.”

“οὔκουν γέλως ἥδιστος εἰς ἐχθροὺς γελᾶν; And to mock at foes”

“No puede pensar sin su sombrero”

“Nuestro tiempo es tan excitante que a las personas solo puede chocarnos el aburrimiento”

“A decir verdad Dios no parece necesitar razones para hacer lo que hace y para omitir lo que omite, al igual que sus criaturas”

“In Spanish, we have a tradition of open”

“From before I knew how to read, my parents had me memorize poems by Ruben Dario, the great Nicaraguan poet who founded the modernist movement that transformed the Spanish language and whose work I recited with pleasure to whoever was naïve enough to ask me to do so. The rhythm of Dario’s poems fascinated me. Often”

“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Pity for Him Who One Day .”

“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Fatalidad (Fatality) .”

“I am not on a bed of roses”

“Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.”

“Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal"”

“Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo, y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.”

“I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems) . I Seek a Form (1896).”

“In the heart of the wilderness, a man finds his true self.”

“The river is like life: it flows endlessly toward the sea.”

“Power corrupts even the noblest of intentions.”

“The earth knows no masters, only those who work it.”

“Civilization and barbarism are two faces of the same coin.”

“The jungle demands everything from those who enter it.”

“The llanero is free because he lives under the open sky.”

“Nature in the tropics is both generous and cruel.”

“In the immensity of the landscape, man discovers his own smallness.”

“The plains teach man to be patient.”

“There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. Mowing”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. Mowing”

“I do not see why I should e'er turn back , Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew”

“Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow, But it were vain to tell her so, And they are better for her praise. My November Guest”

“The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why. My November Guest”

“Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad her simple worsted gray Is silver now with clinging mist. My November Guest”

“My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. My November Guest”

“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Letter to Louis Untermeyer”

“It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching. Letter to Sidney Cox”

“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.”

“What These Children Are Like”

“The Golden Age, Time Past”

“Some Questions and Some Answers”

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. "Remembering Jimmy " (1958), in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 277.”

“Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke”

“Society, Morality and the Novel”

“The Art of Fiction: An Interview”

“Brave Words for a Startling Occasion”

“Richard Wright 's Blues”

“I know how reluctant it makes us feel to give any credit for humanity to the western civilisation when we observe the brutalities into which this nationalism of theirs breaks out, instances of which are so numerous all the world over,”

“Nationalism in the West”

“The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in the incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part, wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings. Letter to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, renouncing his knighthood in protest of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre .”

“Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.”

“When the other person understands that I am not trying to enslave him, or not forcing him to do things against his will, he will surely understand I am doing what every human should do unto another. He will understand that with “ Bande Mataram ” we are worshipping a motherland whose children are the great and the small. Then, we will not insult or demean anyone through our attitudes, words and thoughts whether Muslim or lower caste, Bihari or Oriya, English educated or not”

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. I took a few steps down that road and stopped; for when I cannot retain my faith in universal man standing over and above my country, when patriotic prejudices overshadow my God, I feel inwardly starved. 1908 letter to Aurobindo Mohan Bose, quoted in Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore , Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson”

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

“I cannot but bring to your mind those days when the whole of Eastern Asia, from Burma to Japan was united with India in the closest ties of friendship... Rabindranath Tagore, Essays, Nationalism in Japan, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2007 p.471, and quoted in A Look at India From the Views of Other Scholars, by Stephen Knapp [1]”

“To know my country one has to travel to that age, when she realized her soul and thus transcended her physical boundaries when she revealed her being in a radiant magnanimity which illumined the eastern horizon, making her recognized as their own by those in alien shores who were awakened into a surprise of life.”

“It was indeed a great day not only for the Sikhs but also for the whole of India when Guru Govinda , defying the age”

“La Barcarola Termina (The Watersong Ends) (1967), trans. Anthony Kerrigan in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0”

“Soliloquio en Tinieblas (Soliloquy at Twilight) from Estravagario (Book of Vagaries) (1958).”

“Mi amor se nutre de tu amor, amada My love feeds on your love, beloved From "Si Tu Me Olvidas"”

“Oda a la Bella Desnuda (Ode to a Beautiful Nude) , from Nuevas Odas Elementales (1956), trans. Nathaniel Tarn in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0”

“Debajo de tu piel vive la luna. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Ch. 4”

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. The Canterville Ghost (1887)”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act I”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I”

“I can resist anything except temptation. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Ch. 4”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”

“A Tale of Two Gardens”

“We are condemned”

“Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy”

“I am a man: little do I last”

“Between going and staying the day wavers,”

“Motion", as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957”

“If you are the amber mare”

“To fight evil is to fight ourselves. Itinerary”

“Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry . Poetry is in love with the instant and seeks to relive it in the poem, thus separating it from sequential time and turning it into a fixed present. But at that time I wrote without wondering why I was doing it. I was searching for the gateway to the present: I wanted to belong to my time and to my century. A little later this obsession became a fixed idea: I wanted to be a modern poet. My search for modernity had begun. Nobel Lecture”

“There can be no society without poetry , but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot. "Signs in Rotation" (1967) in The Bow and the Lyre : The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (1973) as translated by Ruth L.C. Simms, p. 249”

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

“Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβούμαι τίποτα, είμαι λεύτερος.”

“This is what I want!”

“You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am. In response to attempts by leaders of the Greek Orthodox church to anathematize him, as quoted in God's Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (1996) by Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, p. 12”

“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God." And the almond tree blossomed. The Fratricides (1961), epigraph”

“All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. "Odyssey of Faith" in TIME magazine”

“We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal. Freedom and Death (1956), ch. 13”

“God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise! Freedom and Death (1956), ch. 3”

“We are not simple people who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment. Toda Raba (1934), ch. 10”

“I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear. Toda Raba (1934), quoted in Kimon Friar's introduction to The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1958), p. xxvi”

“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes. Book 1, Ch. 9 as quoted by Edwin Arthur Burtt in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)”

“For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating. Book 1, Ch. 8”

“What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty. Introduction to Book 1, as quoted/translated by Edward Rosen, Nicholas Copernicus on the Revolutions (1978) ed. Jerzy Dobrzycki, Edward Rosen.”

“Those who devised the eccentrics seen thereby in large measure to have solved the problem of apparent motions with approximate calculations. But meanwhile they introduced a good many ideas which apparently contradict the first principles of uniform motion. Nor could they elicit or deduce from the eccentrics the principal consideration, that is, the structure of the universe and the true symmetry of its parts. On the contrary, their experience was just like someone taking from various places hands, feet, a head, and other pieces, very well depicted it may be, but for the representation of a single person; since these fragments would not belong to one another at all, a monster rather than a man would be put together from them. Preface Letter to Pope Paul III, Tr. E. Rosen, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1978) pp. 4-7.”

“Nor do I doubt that skilled and scholarly mathematicians will agree with me if, what philosophy requires from the beginning, they will examine and judge, not casually but deeply, what I have gathered together in this book to prove these things. ...Mathematics is written for mathematicians, to whom these my labours, if I am not mistaken, will appear to contribute something. ...What... I may have achieved in this, I leave to the decision of your Holiness especially, and to all other learned mathematicians. ...If perchance there should be foolish speakers who, together with those ignorant of all mathematics, will take it upon themselves to decide concerning these things, and because of some place in the Scriptures wickedly distorted to their purpose, should dare to assail this my work, they are of no importance to me, to such an extent do I despise their judgment as rash. Preface Letter to Pope Paul III as quoted by Edwin Arthur Burtt in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)”

“When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere. Wherefore I took upon myself the task of re-reading the books of all the philosophers which I could obtain, to seek out whether any one had ever conjectured that the motions of the spheres of the universe were other than they supposed who taught mathematics in the schools. And I found first, that, according to Cicero, Nicetas [assumed by modern editors to mean Hicetas] had thought the earth was moved. Then later I discovered, according to Plutarch, that certain others had held the same opinion. ... When from this, therefore, I had conceived its possibility, I myself also began to meditate upon the mobility of the earth. And although the opinion seemed absurd, yet because I knew the liberty had been accorded to others before me of imagining whatsoever circles they pleased to explain the phenomena of the stars, I thought I also might readily be allowed to experiment whether, by supposing the earth to have some motion, stronger demonstrations than those of the others could be found as to the revolution of the celestial sphere. Thus, supposing these motions which I attribute to the earth later on in this book, I found at length by much and long observation, that if the motions of the other planets were added to the rotation of the earth and calculated as for the revolution of that planet, not only the phenomena of the others followed from this, but also it so bound together both the order and magnitude of all the planets and the spheres and the heaven itself, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in all the universe. Hence for this reason in the course of this work I have followed this system. Preface Letter to Pope Paul III as quoted by Edwin Arthur Burtt in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)”

“Neque enim ita mihi mea placent, ut non perpendam, quid alii de illis iudicaturi sint. Et quamvis sciam, hominis philosophi cogitationes esse remotas à iudicio vulgi, propterea quòd illius studium sit veritatem omnibus in rebus, quatenus id à Deo rationi humanæ permissum est, inquirere, tamen alienas prorsus à rectitudine opiniones fugiendas censeo. Itaque cum mecum ipse cogitarem, quàm absurdum ἀκρόαμα existimaturi essent illi, qui multorum seculorum iudiciis hanc opinionem confirmatam norunt, quòd terra immobilis in medio cœli, tanquam centrum illius posita sit, si ego contra assererem terram moveri... For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heaven as its center would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.”

“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge. As quoted in Poland : The Knight Among Nations (1907) by Louis E. Van Norman, p. 290; also in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, pp. 230-31”

“Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, \"with both eyes open.\”

“If perchance there should be foolish speakers who, together with those ignorant of all mathematics, will take it upon themselves to decide concerning these things, and because of some place in the Scriptures wickedly distorted to their purpose, should dare to assail this my work, they are of no importance to me, to such an extent do I despise their judgment as rash. For it is not unknown that Lactantius, the writer celebrated in other ways but very little in mathematics, spoke somewhat childishly of the shape of the earth when he derided those who declared the earth had the shape of a ball. So it ought not to surprise students if such should laugh at us also. Mathematics is written for mathematicians to whom these our labors, if I am not mistaken, will appear to contribute something even to the ecclesiastical state the headship of which your Holiness now occupies.(Author's preface to de revolutionibus) Translation as quoted in The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe (1917) by Dorothy Stimson, p. 115”

“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth. "The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice”

“The Maypole of Merry Mount”

“Lo, there ye stand, my children,”

“By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places”

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry. "The Gray Champion" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system , and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections ; not that they gape so long and wide”

“Sketches from Memory”

“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities. "Fanshawe"”

“Put you in this pickle. Ch. 5.”

“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Ch. 4.”

“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Ch. 4.”

“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. Ch. 4.”

“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).”

“They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”

“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”

“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”

“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires. A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”

“It's not how you start, but it's how you finish. Upon winning four Gold medals after the silver medal in his first race in Rome 2009.”

“Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. Upon winning his eighth straight Gold medal and having set his eighth straight Olympic record, as well as his seventh world record, in his eight events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 17 August 2008. (Source: "Phelps wins historic eighth gold medal". CNN. )”

“Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible. Upon winning his seventh straight Gold medal and having set his seventh straight Olympic record in as many events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 16 August 2008. (Source: "Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal… just barely". Sports Illustrated. )”

“There are certain artists who belong to all the people, everywhere, all the time. The list of singers, musicians, and poets must include David the harpist from the Old Testament, Aesop the Storyteller, Omar Khayyam the Tent Maker, Shakespeare the Bard of Avon, Louis Armstrong the genius of New Orleans, Om Kalsoum the soul of Egypt, Frank Sinatra , Mahalia Jackson , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Charles ... Celia Cruz ...All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter”

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within”

“I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life . As quoted in Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities (2006) by Brian Mayne, p. 84”

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. As quoted in The Truth in Words (2005) by Neal Zero”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry , but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh , eat , worry , and die , it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends . Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224”

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind , true, merciful , generous , or honest . As quoted in USA Today”

“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense . No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.”

“… There is an African saying which is:”

“We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*”

“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. "A Mysterious Visit", Buffalo Express , 19 March 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old‎”

“Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city. "A Curious Dream", in Mark Twain’s Sketches, Selected and Revised by the Author (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872) p. 308”

“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”

“Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience”

“The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation”

“The Treaty With China”

“Cited by: William E. Phipps, Mark Twain's Religion , Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 18 Richard Locke, Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels , Columbia University Press, p. 12”

“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

“Answers to Correspondents”

“You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.”

“We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.”

“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”

“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”

“He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.”

“Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.”

“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”

“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth. Interview , El País , 27/02/2018”

“Mario Vargas Llosa compara al peronismo con los nazis y lo culpa de destruir Argentina”

“Ahora tenemos un peronismo que es todo: es la extrema derecha, es el centro, es el centro izquierda, es la extrema izquierda, es la democracia y es el terrorismo, es la demagogia y es la insensatez... Todo es el peronismo... Now we have Peronism that is everything: it's the far right and its the center, it's left centrist and is also extreme leftist, it is democracy and is also terrorism, its demagogy is also insanity...Peronism is everything.”

“Paz es aceptar la diferencia del otro”

“No vayas a creer lo que te cuentan del mundo (ni siquiera esto que te estoy contando) ya te dije que el mundo es incontable”

“Lo peor del eco es que dice las mismas barbaridades”

“La infancia es eso: vida pura”

“Hay pocas cosas tan ensordecedoras como el silencio”

“Aunque nos olvidemos de olvidar seguro que el recuerdo nos olvida».”

“Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.”

“Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we make it our duty to practice them, that, if we are suddenly called upon to perform some action of a different order, it takes us by surprise, and without our supposing for a moment that it might involve the bringing of those very same virtues into play.”

“Autrefois on rêvait de posséder le cœur de la femme dont on était amoureux; plus tard sentir qu’on possède le cœur d’une femme peut suffire à vous en rendre amoureux. In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.”

“They would have preferred for me, instead of Bloch, companions who would have given me no more than it is proper to give according to the laws of middle”

“Ce n’est pas le mal qui lui donnait l’idée du plaisir, qui lui semblait agréable ; c’est le plaisir qui lui semblait malin. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.”

“Même au point de vue des plus insignifiantes choses de la vie, nous ne sommes pas un tout matériellement constitué, identique pour tout le monde et dont chacun n'a qu'à aller prendre connaissance comme d'un cahier des charges ou d'un testament; notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres. Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account”

“[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy. Of Fauré 's Romances sans paroles Op. 17, as quoted in Orledge Gabriel Fauré (1979), p. 48”

“received in good society,”

“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it. Preface (1910) to The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin , translated by Proust (1904); from Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans. Jean Autret and Philip J. Wolfe (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0”

“A sort of egotistical self”

“I have been wanting to write to you for some time, but never have time, so absorbed I am in playing chess. I play night and day and nothing in the whole world interests me more than finding the right move.. .Nothing transcendental going on here – strikes [in Buenos Aires, where chess competitions were organized that year for not professionals] a lot of strikes, the people are on the move. Painting interests me less and less. a daily life quote, in Duchamp's letter to the Stettheimers family in New York, from Buenos Aires 3 Mai 1919; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 159”

“If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter on to a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases [it] creates a new image of the unit of length. Duchamp's stated premise for his art-work: '3 Standard stoppages' he made during 1913 -1914; ; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 50”

“Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that? Quote of Duchamp's remark to Brancusi, visiting the Paris Aviation Show of 1919; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 49”

“To be looked at [from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass'] with one eye, close to, for almost an hour. an inscription in French title, (translated) – instruction of his artwork, 1918; as quoted from 'Looking at Dada' ed. Sarah Blyth / Edward Powers, MoMa museum, New York 2006, p. 13”

“Duchamp's core quote / his own written comment on his artwork 'Fountain (Duchamp)': The Richard Mutt Case, Marcel Duchamp, ‘Blind Man’, New York, 1917: 5”

“They say any artist paying six dollars may exhibitMr. Richard Mutt [= Long time scholars recognize R. Mutt was Duchamp himself; a growing number attribute credit Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven[1], a bisexual dada artist living in New York who as a woman, needed a pseudonym to get into the Armory Exhibition[2]]. The object was photographed by Alfred Steiglitz before disappearing and was never was exhibited.What were the grounds for refusing Mr. Mutt fountain:1. Some contented it was immoral, vulgar.2. Others, it was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing. Quote in: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, – a source-book of Artist's writings, ed. Kristine Stiles / Peter Selz, University of California Press, London, England, 1996, p. 817”

“People talk of Pablo Picasso as the leader of the Cubists but, strictly speaking, he is no longer a Cubist. Today he is a Cubist, tomorrow he will be something else. The only true Cubists are Gleizes and Metzinger. quote from the text 'A complete reversal of opinions on art'; Marcel Duchamp, in 'Art and Decoration', New York, 1 September 1915”

“I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the way it have to be.. .I am very happy to hear that you Walter Pach sold these canvasses for me and thank you very sincerely for your friendship. But I am afraid of getting to the stage of needing to sell canvases, In a word, of being a painter for a living. – So I'll be leaving probably on the 22nd or rather 29th May [1915], if the police authorities allow me to take the steamer. Quote in Duchamp's letter to Walter Pach, Paris 27 April 1915; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 157”

“..I am not going to New York, I am leaving Paris. That's quite different. Long before the war [World War 1.] I already had a distaste for the 'artistic life' I was involved in. – It's quite the opposite of what I'm looking for. – And so I tried, through the Library, to escape from artists somewhat. Then, with the war, my incompatibility with this milieu grew. I wanted to go away at all costs. Where to? My only option was New York where I knew you [ Walter Pach, artist and friend of Duchamp] and where I hope to be able to escape leading the artistic life, if needs be through a job which will keep me very busy. I ask you to keep all this from my brothers [all his brothers were artists as well] because I know my leaving will be very painful for them. – the same goes for my father and sisters. Quote in Duchamp's letter to Walter Pach, Paris 27 April 1915; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 157”

“At present there is an extremely exaggerated formation of groups (students on the School of Art in Vitebsk) around 'trend'; there are 1. young people following Malevich and 2. young people following me. We both belong to the left-wing artistic movement, although we have different ideas about ends and means. Obviously it would take too long to talk about this problem now.. .But there is one thing I will tell you: Although I was born in Russia - and what is more: in the "settlement territory" – I was trained abroad and am all the more sensitive to everything that is taking place here in the field of art (the fine arts). The memory of the splendour of the original is much to painful for me..[to live – crossed out] letter to Pavel Davidovitch Ettering, 2 April, 1920, as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 73”

“Or is all this fuss actually important for art history ? Oh, no, never. If things only ever originated as a result of such competition (between subject- and subjectless art) , it wouldn't be worth living among them, like an accidental, capricious toy. Clearly there is a greater, a more serene and more modest power, but we are either too lazy to live by its laws, or we have no time, or it "hurts too much". letter to A. N. Benois, 1918; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 150”

“..But it doesn't frighten me, because I studied in France, thank God, and I know of no artist in history who was not 'literary' when it came down to it. Not a single one. And even if they don't appear to be, I know of none and you at least don't recall them, because there is nothing to recall.. .Sometime or other I'd like to see a pure artist, but I didn't even find one in France. Obviously the trouble is that one approaches painting from the other side, so that the word sujet conceals the point of the thing. Yet even the most beautiful and emptiest sujet (an apple, a grape or any non-figurative painting ) doesn't help if there are no foundations, either innate or acquired through hard work.. .Why don't we say clearly: That is freedom, and this is commitment to the subject and to each tree its berries , but let it be a tree and not a donkey.. letter to A. N. Benois, 1918; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 150”

“The sun has only ever shone for me in France (it certainly did that!). I have got used to beating the streets of Paris, happy beyond words dreaming of a life 125 years long - with the Louvre radiant in the distance. (Chagall couldn't go back to Paris because of the outbreak of the first World War in 1914). Having ended up in the Russian provinces, I have decided to die . letter to Sergei K. Markovsky, 1915; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 149”

“My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day of Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum.. letter to A. N. Benois, 1914, on his return to Russia; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 147”

“In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition. letter to Mstislav V. Dobushinsky, = A. N. Benois, 1912; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 147”

“If Russian painters were condemned to become the pupils of the West they were, I think, rather unfaithful ones by their very nature. The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves on perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root. Why my language itself is foreign to them. Why people do not place confidence in me. Why the artistic circles fail to recognize me. Why in Russia I am entirely useless.. .In Paris, it seemed to me that I was discovering everything, above all a mastery of technique.. .It was not in technique alone that I sought the meaning of art then. It was as if the gods had stood before me.. .I had the impression that we are still only roaming on the surface of matter, that we are afraid to plunge into chaos, to shatter and overthrow beneath our feet the familiar surface. (reaction on his first arrival in Paris, 1910) Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 262, (translation Daphne Woodward)”

“Chagall started in 1912 (in Paris) to paint his 'Golgotha' [2] and later more Crucifixions. In this (later! quote) Chagall looks back on this question.”

“For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. That is how I understood him in 1908 when I used this figure for the first time.. .It was under the influence of the pogroms. Then I painted and drew him in pictures about ghettos, surrounded by Jewish troubles, by Jewish mothers, running terrified with little children in their arms. From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, 2007, p. 218”

“I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working. Chagall's letter to A. N. Benois, 1911, as cited in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 146”

“As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations ; but I will come the next day. Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422”

“Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421”

“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust. To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train”

“And at last we've got to the end of this ideal racecourse! Now that you accept A and B and C and D , of course you accept Z .”

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”

“I charm in vain; for never again, All keenly as my glance I bend, Will Memory, goddess coy, Embody for my joy Departed days, nor let me gaze On thee, my fairy friend! "To my Child”

“To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author. Inscribed in Mrs. Lorina Liddell's copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground ; quoted by Edward Wakeling”

“The `Why?' cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a spirit fresh from GOD's hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen: he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but an overflowing love”

“You have no mind to be unkind,”

“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old. Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood , The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130”

“El concepto de Dios emana del reconocimiento de las debilidades del hombre”

“Comprenderlo todo es perdonarlo todo”

“A menudo se discute porque no llegamos a comprender lo que pretende demostrar nuestro interlocutor”

“Amar, con un amor humano, es poder pasar del amor al odio. El amor divino sin embargo, es inmutable”

“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor. What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XXXVIII, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 259”

“Six feet of land was all that he needed. How Much Land Does a Man Need?”

“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back. Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence”

“Where Love Is, God Is”

“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders. My Religion (1884), as translated in The Human Experience : Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry (1989) by the Quaker US/USSR Committee”

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. Only deeds of truth, by introducing light into the conscience of each individual, can dissolve the cohesion of error, and detach men one by one from the mass united together by the cohesion of error. My Religion (1884), Ch. 12”

“My Religion (1884), Ch. 8 В чем моя вера?”

“...никогда Христос ... ни одним словом не утверждал личное воскресение и бессмертие личности за гробом... Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.”

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. Sevastopol in May (1855), Ch. 16”

“The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don't know who gave birth to it. It is older than God. interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)”

“The Tao is teachable, yet understanding my words is not the same as following the Tao. The guidance is describable, yet knowing the description is not the same as following the guidance. Non-Being guides to the origin of Heaven and Earth. Being guides to the mother of all particular things. Thus, through the guidance of Non-Being, you can observe the beginning; through the guidance of Being, you can observe the returning. Non-Being and Being come out concurrently, but point to different directions; both together can be called the mysterious transforming power. They constantly transform into each other, and form the gateways for all wonderful things. translated by Yuhui Liang”

“A way can be a guide but not a fixed pathnames can be given but not permanent labelsNonbeing is called the beginning of heaven and earthbeing is called the mother of all thingsAlways passionless thereby observe the subtleever intent thereby observe the apparentThese two come from the same source but differ in nameboth are considered mysteriesThe mystery of mysteries is the gateway of marvels translated by Thomas Cleary (2004)”

“The way you can go isn't the real way. The name you can say isn't the real name. Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name's the mother of the ten thousand things. So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Two things, one origin, but different in name, whose identity is mystery. Mystery of all mysteries! The door to the hidden. interpreted by Ursula K. LeGuin (1998)”

“The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be spoken is not the eternal Name. The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of creation. Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery. By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real. Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness born from darkness. The beginning of all understanding. translated by J.H.McDonald (1996)”

“The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnameable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)”

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972)”

“Also as Tao called Tao is not Tao.”

“The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be defined is not the unchanging name. Non-existence is called the antecedent of heaven and earth; Existence is the mother of all things. From eternal non-existence, therefore, we serenely observe the mysterious beginning of the Universe; From eternal existence we clearly see the apparent distinctions. These two are the same in source and become different when manifested. This sameness is called profundity. Infinite profundity is the gate whence comes the beginning of all parts of the Universe. translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (1904)”

“Those about whom you inquire have moulded with their bones into dust. Nothing but their words remain. When the hour of the great man has struck he rises to leadership; but before his time has come he is hampered in all that he attempts. I have heard that the successful merchant carefully conceals his wealth, and acts as though he had nothing—that the great man, though abounding in achievements, is simple in his manners and appearance. Get rid of your pride and your many ambitions, your affectation and your extravagant aims. Your character gains nothing for all these. This is my advice to you. Attributed to Laozi. Laozi speaking to Confucius. Quoted in James Legge, Texts of Taoism, 34; Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.”

“The Black Man Speaks,”

“I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind. "Morning After," (l. 1”

“Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken”

“Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington 's grave),”

“Song for a Dark Girl”

“The stars went out and so did the moon . The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. " The Weary Blues ", in The Weary Blues”

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

“The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people. "My People", in the magazine Poems in Crisis (October 1923); reprinted in The Weary Blues”

“They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed”

“, in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959); it is also often referred to as”

“Music is the language of the spirit.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.”

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.”

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

“Work is love made visible.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life longing for itself.”

“I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my time the work of Latin American writers was not well distributed, even on our continent. In Chile it was very hard to read other writers from Latin America. My greatest influences have been all the great writers of the Latin American Boom in literature: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Borges, Paz, Rulfo, Amado, etc. Isabel Allende Interview”

“Julio was never a regional writer. You could see he was Argentinian, but he was more like Borges , more universal from the very beginning. He didn’t jump from the regionalism, he wrote universally all the time...It’s not that Julio was not very Argentinian, he was very Argentinian but his works were never as local. Claribel Alegría Interview with Bomb Magazine”

“Reflections on the Fantastic”

“The only true exile is the writer who lives in his own country.”

“The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.”

“Translation: LOVE 77”

“Hair loss and retrieval”

“Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo. Translation: Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.”

“I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.”

“' Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.' Translation: We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.”

“A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN”

“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing … Silence … Waves.”

“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die. "I am not I", from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems , chosen and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 77”

“Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado”

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury ; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones , and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways”

“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism. "Heroic Reason", as translated by H. R. Hays, in Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez (1957) edited by Eugenio Florit, p. 231.”

“Poetry and Literature”

“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! "Western Moon" in Canción (1935).”

“Nostalgia aguda, infinita, terrible, de lo que tengo. Sharp nostalgia, infinite And terrible, for what I already possess!”

“Interview with El País (2002); cited in Princípios (Editora Anita Garibaldi, 2002), p. 88; English translation taken from Phillips The World Turned Upside Down (2010), p. 207.”

“Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet. Interview with Katherine Vaz, José Saramago , BOMB Magazine , June 2001.”

“On the idea for his next novel ( Blindness ), which came to him while sitting in a restaurant; New York Times interview with Alan Riding (1998), as quoted in Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies , 6th Edition (Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, 2001), p. 131.”

“Um dia, sentado à mesa, pensei: E se fôssemos todos cegos? Imediatamente me veio a resposta: Nós somos todos cegos. The question suddenly came into my head, 'And if we were all blind?' And then immediately, as if answering myself, 'But we are all blind.'”

“Interview Programa Jô Soares , 1997.”

“Não é a pornografia que é obscena, é a fome que é obscena It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.”

“A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'. Quoted in José Saramago: il bagaglio dello scrittore ‎, page 41, by Giulia Lanciani, published by Bulzoni, 1996 ISBN 8871199332 , 9788871199337 (256 pages).”

“Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio. God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence. Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook , entry for 9 October 2008.”

“Interview in Idéias , no. 107 (15 October 1988), trans. Margaret Jull Costa .”

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Dedication of the Statue of Liberty”

“Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. Henry Ward Beecher”

“A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men. A Glance at the North American's Soul Today”

“To beautify life is to give it an object. On Oscar Wilde”

“A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. On Oscar Wilde”

“Oh, what company good poets are! Longfellow”

“Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation! Amor”

“Life on earth is a hand”

“The Universal Library”

“Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv”

“The masked dyer Hakim of Merv”

“The Approach to Al”

“The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro”

“Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface”

“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2”

“A Poem by Oscar Wilde”

“The Argentine Writer and Tradition”

“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. "To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [ Fervor de Buenos Aires ]”

“There is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple.”

“Life is a continuous process of arriving.”

“A writer is not only a person who writes, but also someone who reads and lives.”

“The memory keeps what the heart wants to keep.”

“Every man must find his own path, no matter how difficult.”

“Writing is like making love: one must give oneself completely.”

“I know that love is the only thing that saves us from the abyss. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966)”

“Encyclopedic article on Jorge Amado on Wikipedia”

“song of the cacao region”

“O cheiro de cravo, a cor de canela, eu vim de longe vim ver Gabriela. Colour of cinnamon, Clove's sweet smell, I've come a long way To see Gabrielle.”

“I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence. The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)”

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the oppressed. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Ch. 15”

“The mountains are the heart of a country. Travels with Charley (1962)”

“No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a New England town. Travels with Charley (1962)”

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)”

“Man itself is as mixed as the clouds, as disharmonious as the sea. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Ch. 15”

“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. Travels with Charley (1962)”

“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 1”

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Of Mice and Men (1937), title reference to Robert Burns”

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. Travels with Charley (1962)”

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.”

“The working class has nothing to lose but its chains.”

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

“History is written by those who make it.”

“The struggle for freedom is the struggle of all humanity.”

“To understand the world, you must first see it with your own eyes.”

“The truth is revolutionary.”

“I have seen the future, and it works.”

“The revolution is the only true expression of the people's will.”

“Journalism is the first draft of history.”

“Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven firstborn!”

“Free will is the foundation of human dignity.”

“To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.”

“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”

“Awake, arise or be forever fallen!”

“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

“What hath night to do with sleep?”

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

“Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. Who rides, so late, through night and wind? It is the father with his child. He holds the boy in the crook of his arm He holds him safe, he keeps him warm. Der Erlkönig”

“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash. Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar”

“Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world. Claudine von Villa Bella”

“One lives but once in the world . Clavigo , Act I, sc. i”

“I hold to faith in the divine love”

“Alternative translation: So certain is it that he alone is great and happy, who requires neither to command nor to obey, in order to secure his being of some importance in the world. Götz von Berlichingen , Act I (1773), p. 39”

“So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein! He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”

“Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten. There is strong shadow where there is much light . Götz von Berlichingen , Act I”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768), Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography”

“I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. Letter to Cassandra (1799”

“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown. Letter to Cassandra (1799”

“She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat. Letter to Cassandra (1799”

“I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it. Letter (1799”

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. Letter to Cassandra (1798”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Letter to Cassandra (1798”

“I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message”

“Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend. Letter (1798”

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. Letter (1796”

“Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. Letter (August 1796) on arriving in London [ Letters of Jane Austen”

“Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. Notes (1913) made by Joyce for his play Exiles”

“The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War,”

“Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe”

“Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages,”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end. Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0”

“Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence. "A Suave Philosophy," in Daily Express, Dublin (6 February 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, ISBN 0”

“My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? From the poem I Hear an Army”

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. Letter to Augusta Gregory (November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, ISBN 0”

“I want to achieve myself”

“James Clarence Mangan”

“Negroes Are Anti”

“The American Dream and the American Negro”

“Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?”

“Doom and glory of knowing who you are”

“One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found”

“Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are. Interview with M. S. Handler of the New York Times (3 June 1964), quoted in 'Demand For Presidential Lead On U.S. Race Issue', The Times (4 June 1963), p. 10”

“The Cross of Redemption”

“As Much Truth As One Can Bear”

“The Creative Process”

“are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”

“at Rotterdam Holland attended 28 March 1958, in response to Professor Lambers summarizing approximately”

“I should say that, in addition to my tree”

“is based on rural England and not any other country in the world... The toponymy of The Shire ...is a”

“That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and endless rewriting. I woke up one day (more than 2 years ago) with that odd thing virtually complete in my head. It took only a few hours to get down, and then copy out. About " Leaf by Niggle ", in a letter to Stanley Unwin”

“There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done. Letter”

“Nearly all marriages , even happy ones, are mistakes : in the sense that almost certainly (in a more Perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul”

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”

“dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.”

“A Philologist on Esperanto”

“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures . "A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien”

“...We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it’s silent, tranquil, and gentle; it’s a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self”

“...you shouldn't stay trapped in the past or be frightened of the future. You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? Every day counts, I can tell you!”

“There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that’s why they get noticed...”

“When Irina Bazili began working at Lark House in 2010, she was twenty”

“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Of Love and Shadows”

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. Paula”

“Where does taste end and smell begin? "Language of Flowers" anthologized in The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson”

“He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Zorro”

“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir”

“Nature does not forgive those who forget her power.”

“In the tropics, death is always just around the corner.”

“The short story is a arrow that must hit the target in a single flight.”

“There is no better school of literature than the jungle.”

“The writer must learn to kill his darlings.”

“Man is always a stranger in the wilderness.”

“The wild does not forgive mistakes.”

“In the jungle, the struggle for survival is the only law.”

“Nature is indifferent to human suffering.”

“The jungle is a world where death lurks at every step.”

“Resolve to do right; leave the rest to fate.”

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. The Odyssey, Book 11”

“Courage is not something that can be measured, but it is something that can be given.”

“The journey is long and full of hardships.”

“Light is the task when many share the toil.”

“A sympathetic man can make even a stranger his friend.”

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worthy to die for.”

“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. The Odyssey, Book 15”

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. The Odyssey, Book 6”

“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. The Iliad, Book 1”

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. p. 32”

“Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love... p. 88”

“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged”

“I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength. p. 4”

“Once my world was full of friends,”

“Sadness when there should be Joy , hatred when there should be love show compassion because we can be more because we both have scars and pain that no one will ever understand but us so be with me not against me and bring us where we were happy and free .”

“That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer , and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die !”

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy . I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

“In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self”

“The marvel of the Bhagavad”

“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158”

“The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?) Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (June 1, 1851).”

“Whence came you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips”

“In me divine magnanimities are spontaneous and instantaneous”

“Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is love appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory”

“There is a certain tragic phase of humanity which, in our opinion, was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne . We mean the tragedies of human thought in its own unbiassed, native, and profounder workings. We think that into no recorded mind has the intense feeling of the usable truth ever entered more deeply than into this man's. By usable truth, we mean the apprehension of the absolute condition of present things as they strike the eye of the man who fears them not, though they do their worst to him,”

“It will be a strange sort of book , tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;”

“And do not think, my boy, that because I, impulsively broke forth in jubillations over Shakspeare , that, therefore, I am of the number of the snobs who burn their tuns of rancid fat at his shrine. No, I would stand afar off & alone, & burn some pure Palm oil, the product of some overtopping trunk.”

“I do not oscillate in Emerson 's rainbow , but prefer rather to hang myself in mine own halter than swing in any other man's swing. Yet I think Emerson is more than a brilliant fellow. Be his stuff begged, borrowed, or stolen, or of his own domestic manufacture he is an uncommon man. Swear he is a humbug”

“Dolt & ass that I am I have lived more than 29 years, & until a few days ago, never made close acquaintance with the divine William . Ah, he's full of sermons”

“My choice is the old world”

“The Atlantic Monthly, March 1873”

“Cats and monkeys”

“Deep experience is never peaceful. Madame de Mauves , Galaxy Magazine (February/March 1874), ch. V, reprinted in A Passionate Pilgrim (1875) and later in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (1879) and the New York Edition of James' works, vol. 13”

“It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton”

“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton”

“Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine. Letter to Henry James Sr.”

“I haven't a creature to talk to...How in Boston, when the evening arrives, and I am tired of reading, and know it would be better to do something else, can I go to the theater? I have tried it, ad nauseam. Likewise calling. Upon whom?" Letter to William James”

“Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold ,”

“[of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ] [it is] like a vast episode in a sermon preached by a grandly humorous divine; and however we may be entertained by the way, we must not forget that our ultimate duty is to be instructed. An early critical review, North American Review”

“Slavery in Massachusetts”

“Talk of mysteries!”

“When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough, What care I for the Greeks or for Troy town, If juster battles are enacted now Between the ants upon this hummock's crown? "The Summer Rain", st. 3. The Dial (October 1842) p. 224”

“My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large Down in the meadow, where is richer feed, And will not mind to hit their proper targe. "The Summer Rain", st. 1. The Dial (October 1842) p. 224”

“The life that I aspire to live No man proposeth me”

“Great God , I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. "Prayer", st. 1. The Dial (July 1842) p. 79”

“Natural History of Massachusetts”

“But now I see I was not plucked for naught, And after in life's vase Of glass set while I might survive, But by a kind hand brought Alive To a strange place. "Sic Vita", st. 6. The Dial (July 1841) p. 82”

“I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links Were made so loose and wide, Methinks, For milder weather. "Sic Vita", st. 1. The Dial (July 1841) p. 81”

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. Sputnik Sweetheart”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? Sputnik Sweetheart”

“You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strange, first of all I'd like to clear up just what that difference is. "Barn Burning"(short story) in The Elephant Vanishes”

“Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. South of the Border, West of the Sun”

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. South of the Border, West of the Sun”

“likewesaid, we'lldowhatwecan. Trytoreconnectyou, towhatyouwant,”

“Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off. Dance Dance Dance”

“The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first”

“write about a particular subject in a particular way,”

“I said this one day to the doctor in charge of my case, and he told me that, in a sense, what I was feeling was right, that we are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it: that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities. Just as each person has certain idiosyncrasies in the way he or she walks, people have idiosyncrasies in the way they think and feel and see things, … " In a letter from Naoko, Norwegian Wood”

“He who has imagination, with what ease he creates a world from nothing.”

“What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it is dignity!”

“The spectacle of beauty, in whatever form it appears, raises the mind to noble aspirations.”

“Love is a chaos of light and shadows. Woman, an amalgam of perjury and tenderness. Man, an abyss of greatness and smallness.”

“Solitude is very beautiful... when you have someone to tell it to.”

“The memory that a book leaves is more important than the book itself.”

“For a look, a world; for a smile, a heaven; for a kiss... I don't know what I would give you for a kiss!”

“The soul that can speak through its eyes can also kiss with its gaze.”

“There may be no poets, but there will always be poetry.”

“What is poetry? You ask while fixing your blue pupil on my pupil. What is poetry? And you ask me? Poetry... is you.”

“I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle”

“There is a geographical element in all belief”

“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith”

“Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, no goal except the grave. Surely only fools or self”

“Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time. Review of Tropic of Cancer , in New English Weekly”

“The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920”

“As to a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc is P. S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favour George Orwell. Letter to Leonard Moore”

“In England, a century of strong government has developed what O. Henry called the stern and rugged fear of the police to a point where any public protest seems an indecency. But in France everyone can remember a certain amount of civil disturbance, and even the workmen in the bistros talk of la revolution”

“And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path. It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working”

“This means no more than vae victis”

“Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the "Cabinet Edition" of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4”

“Apropos of the " The Lifted Veil ," I think it will not be judicious to reprint it at present. I care for the idea which it embodies, and which justifies its painfulness. A motto which I wrote on it yesterday perhaps is a sufficient indication of that idea:”

“'Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands : He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins Without Antonio. Stradivarius”

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. Felix Holt, the Radical”

“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. Felix Holt, the Radical”

“ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit”

“If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. Letter to Charles Bray”

“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy . Letter to Charles Bray”

“Unsigned article reprinted in The Essays of “George Eliot.” Complete.”

“The real drama of Evangelicalism”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. You Never Can Tell , Act II”

“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. You Never Can Tell , Act I”

“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer. Candida , Act III”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Candida , Act I”

“Visits to Valhalla: The Ectasy And the Agony”

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity . Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895”

“No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means ; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule. "The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review , LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443; reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932). Vol. 1. London: Constable & Co. 79”

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it... In The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890”

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it... In The World”

“Philosophic Radicals ,”

“Message about the Jews,”

“Let's not ask our countries to accept a massive number of desolate Jewish immigrants. But let's do ask that they”

“Hunt? the Jewish dog for being an infidel.”

“It would be foolish for our America to latch onto the filthy tail of this antisemitic campaign. We have enough to do in our own nations”

“The German, Polish, or Lithuanian Jew has been deprived of the sacred right to escape and be free.”

“Piececitos de niño, Dos joyitas sufrientes, ¡Cómo pasan sin veros Las gentes! Little feet of children, two tiny suffering jewels, how can people pass and not see you!”

“Fragment from "Palabras Serenas”

“Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow,”

“I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise. p. 336”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. p. 325”

“Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism? García Márquez: That's a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty”

“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think. p. 322”

“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. p. 322”

“I decline to accept the end of man.”

“The Cataclysm of Damocles”

“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed”

“...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ... The Autumn of the Patriarch . HarperCollins. 2006 [1976]. p. 254. ISBN 978”

“In the end, people will judge you by your actions, not by your intentions.”

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“Man is what he believes.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth. The Brothers Karamazov (1880)”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. Crime and Punishment (1866)”

“Fyodor Dostoyevsky”

“His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave. Regarding John Brown, as quoted in A Lecture On John Brown”

“Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons. In the apocalyptic vision, John describes a war in heaven. You have only to strip that vision of its gorgeous Oriental drapery, divest it of its shining and celestial ornaments, clothe it in the simple and familiar language of common sense, and you will have before you the eternal conflict between right and wrong, good and evil, liberty and slavery, truth and falsehood, the glorious light of love, and the appalling darkness of human selfishness and sin. The human heart is a seat of constant war… Just what takes place in individual human hearts, often takes place between nations, and between individuals of the same nation. As quoted in Maurice S. Lee (2009), The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass. Cambridge University Press, p. 50; Thomson, Conyers & Dawson (2009). The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 84”

“I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored man's cause than those of the Democratic party. As quoted in Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1941), chapter 47, p. 579”

“Your wickedness and cruelty committed in this respect on your fellow creatures, are greater than all the stripes you have laid upon my back or theirs. It is an outrage upon the soul, a war upon the immortal spirit, and one for which you must give account at the bar of our common Father and Creator. Letter to His Old Master. To my Old Master Thomas Auld”

“I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men. As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009), by Maurice S. Lee, Cambridge University Press, p. 70”

“I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to be relied upon in this Anti-Slavery movement. Do not misunderstand my railing—do not class me with those who despise religion—do not identify me with the infidel. I love the religion of Christianity—which cometh from above—which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy. I love that religion which sends its votaries to bind up the wounds of those who have fallen among thieves.By all the love I bear such a Christianity as this, I hate that of the Priest and the Levite, that with long - faced Phariseeism goes up to Jerusalem to worship and leaves the bruised and wounded to die. I despise that religion which can carry Bibles to the heathen on the other side of the globe and withhold them from the heathen on this side—which can talk about human rights yonder and traffic in human flesh here.... I love that which makes its votaries do to others as they would that others should do to them. I hope to see a revival of it—thank God it is revived. I see revivals of it in the absence of the other sort of revivals. I believe it to be confessed now, that there has not been a sensible man converted after the old sort of way, in the last five years. As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009), by Maurice S. Lee, Cambridge University Press, pp. 68-69”

“The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe. As quoted in Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator (1969) by Frederic May Holland, p. 212”

“"The Constitution of the United States" (26 March 1860), Glasgow, United Kingdom.”

“Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren. Douglass' chosen motto for his weekly publication The North Star. It appeared on the first issue. As quoted in Maurice S. Lee (2009), The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass. Cambridge University Press, p. 50; Thomson, Conyers & Dawson (2009). The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 149; & Connie A. Miller. Frederick Douglass American Hero: And International Icon of the Nineteenth Century. Xlibris Corporation. p. 144”

“They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me… Upon being forced to leave a train car due to his color, as quoted in Up from Slavery (1901), Ch. VI: "Black Race And Red Race, the penalty of telling the truth, of telling the simple truth, in answer to a series of strange questions", by Booker T. Washington”

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Letter to Max Brod (1922)”

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired”

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”

“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for man. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable”

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Letter to Oskar Pollak (1904)”

“Enamorarse no es amar. Puede uno enamorarse y odiar”

“El hombre teme la muerte porque ama la vida”

“El hombre es desdichado porque no sabe que es feliz”

“El amor pasa, y la incompatibilidad permanece”

“Theory and Play of the Duende”

“Verte desnuda es recordar la Tierra. To see you naked is to recall the Earth. " Casidas ," IV: Casida de la Mujer Tendida from Primeras Canciones”

“Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña. Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. " Romance Sonámbulo " from Primer romancero gitano”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher”

“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”

“He doesn't believe that public swimming”

“I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation”

“The shadow of a dove Falls on the cote, the trees are filled with wings; And down the valley through the crying trees The body of the darker storm flies; brings With its new air the breath of sunken seas And slender tenuous thunder . . . But I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain”

“Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter... And the rain and over the fields a voice calling...”

“There are no second acts in American lives. The Last Tycoon , "Hollywood, ETC.," ed. Edmund Wilson”

“The rich are different.”

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. "The Rich Boy" (1926), paragraph 3.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way. "Amory Blaine" in This Side of Paradise (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5”

“τὸν καθ᾿ ἡμέραν βίον λογίζου σόν, τὰ δ᾿ ἄλλα τῆς τύχης. Count the present day thine own, the rest to Fortune yield.”

“βροτοῖς ἅπασι κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται, κοὐκ ἔστι θνητῶν ὅστις ἐξεπίσταται τὴν αὔριον μέλλουσαν εἰ βιώσεται· τὸ τῆς τύχης γὰρ ἀφανὲς οἷ προβήσεται, κἄστ᾿ οὐ διδακτὸν οὐδ᾿ ἁλίσκεται τέχνῃ. Death is the common debt of man; no mortal really knows if he will live to see the morrow's light; for Fortune's issues are not in our ken, beyond the teacher's rule they lie, no art can master them.”

“κακῶς ἀκούειν οὐ μέλει θανόντι μοι. Dishonour will not trouble me, once I am dead.”

“μάτην ἄρ᾿ οἱ γέροντες εὔχονται θανεῖν, γῆρας ψέγοντες καὶ μακρὸν χρόνον βίου· ἢν δ᾿ ἐγγὺς ἔλθῃ θάνατος, οὐδεὶς βούλεται θνῄσκειν, τὸ γῆρας δ᾿ οὐκέτ᾿ ἔστ᾿ αὐτοῖς βαρύ. Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”

“κούφα σοι χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι. Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.”

“οὐ γάρ τι πρῶτος οὐδὲ λοίσθιος βροτῶν γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἤμπλακες· γίγνωσκε δὲ ὡς πᾶσιν ἡμῖν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται. Thou art by no means the first nor yet shalt be the last of men to lose a wife of worth; know this, we all of us are debtors unto death.”

“εἰ δ᾿ Ὀρφέως μοι γλῶσσα καὶ μέλος παρῆν, ὥστ᾿ ἢ κόρην Δήμητρος ἢ κείνης πόσιν ὕμνοισι κηλήσαντά σ᾿ ἐξ ᾌδου λαβεῖν, κατῆλθον ἄν, καί μ᾿ οὔθ᾿ ὁ Πλούτωνος κύων οὔθ᾿ οὑπὶ κώπῃ ψυχοπομπὸς ἂν Χάρων ἔσχ᾿ ἄν, πρὶν ἐς φῶς σὸν καταστῆσαι βίον. Oh, if I had Orpheus ' voice and poetry with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord, I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below. I'd go down there for you. Charôn or the grim King's dog could not prevent me then from carrying you up into the fields of light.”

“ἐχθρὰ γὰρ ἡ ᾿πιοῦσα μητρυιὰ τέκνοις τοῖς πρόσθ᾿, ἐχίδνης οὐδὲν ἠπιωτέρα. A second wife is hateful to the children of the first, a viper is not more hateful.”

“οὔποτε φήσω γάμον εὐφραίνειν πλέον ἢ λυπεῖν. Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.”

“ἁγὼ οὔτινι θύω πλὴν ἐμοί, θεοῖσι δ᾿ οὔ, καὶ τῇ μεγίστῃ, γαστρὶ τῇδε, δαιμόνων. I sacrifice to no god save myself”

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut”

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Attributed six-word story”

“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. The Sun Also Rises (1926)”

“In every action, consider the end”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The Old Man and the Sea (1952)”

“All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened”

“Write drunk, edit sober”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book”

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 34”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. A little Madness in the Spring”

“By the Book: Julia Alvarez”

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Letter to Louise Norcross (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 499, no. 379”

“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations. Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381”

“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342a”

“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur”

“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859); Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958) p. 338, no. 193”

“Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A circus passed the house”

“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts . Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles. Letter to Abiah Root (29 January 1850); Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.) Letters of Emily Dickinson , vol. 1 (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1894) p. 39 [1] [2]”

“So hopeless is the world without; The world within I doubly prize; Thy world, where guile, and hate, and doubt, And cold suspicion never rise; Where thou, and I, and Liberty, Have undisputed sovereignty. "To Imagination", st. 2”

“When weary with the long day's care, And earthly change from pain to pain, And lost and ready to despair, Thy kind voice calls me back again: Oh, my true friend! I am not lone, While thou canst speak with such a tone! "To Imagination", st. 1”

“A Little While, a Little While”

“But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends; The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends Mute music sooths my breast”

“He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire And visions rise and change which kills me with desire. The Prisoner , st. 10”

“Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Since passion may not fire thee Shall Nature cease to bow? Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving”

“The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow, And the storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me”

“I Saw Thee, Child, One Summer Day”

“First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there. "I Am the Only Being", st. 5”

“I Am the Only Being”

“Automatic computers have now been with us for a quarter of a century. They have had a great impact on our society in their capacity of tools, but in that capacity their influence will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture, compared with the much more profound influence they will have in their capacity of intellectual challenge without precedent in the cultural history of mankind. Dijkstra (1972) The Humble Programmer (EWD340).”

“Another two years later, in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession. And, believe it or not, but under the heading "profession" my marriage act shows the ridiculous entry "theoretical physicist"! Dijkstra (1972) The Humble Programmer (EWD340).”

“The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. Dijkstra (1972) The Humble Programmer (EWD340).”

“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), corollary at the end.”

“The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible. Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), p. 7.”

“When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured. Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), p. 6.”

“A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), p. 5.”

“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs Dijkstra (1969) J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, eds, Software Engineering Techniques, April 1970. Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27–31 October 1969. p. 16. Possibly the earliest documented use of the famous quote.”

“Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and ... our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible. Dijkstra (1968) "A Case against the GO TO Statement" cited in: Bill Curtis (1981) Tutorial, human factors in software development. p. 109.”

“For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of go to statements in the programs they produce. More recently I discovered why the use of the go to statement has such disastrous effects, and I became convinced that the go to statement should be abolished from all \"higher level\" programming languages.”

“How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? Letter to Barrett Wendell”

“Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. "Xingu" (1911), from Xingu and Other Stories”

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton”

“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist”

“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. "The House of Mirth" (1905), ch. X, pg. 69”

“He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced. "The House of Mirth" (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6”

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. The House of Mirth (1905), bk.1, ch. 6”

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. "The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories”

“It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues. Sanctuary , (1903) part II, ch. IV”

“Vesalius in Zante”

“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. "Letter to Mr. B”

“It is with literature as with law or empire”

“Sonnet. To Science”

“And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. "Alone", l. 20”

“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were”

“Years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute. To M”

“Sound loves to revel in a summer night. Al Aaraaf (1829).”

“The happiest day”

“O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! " Tamerlane ", l. 177 (1884).”

“A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride”

“Chapter XIV, lines 49”

“Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova. She is the sum of nature's universe. To her perfection all of beauty tends.”

“Chapter I, First Sonnet”

“ne le braccia avea madonna involta in un drappo dormendo. Poi la svegliava, e d'esto core ardendo lei paventosa umilmente pascea: appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo. In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient She ate that burning heart out of his hand ; Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”

“Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love .”

“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”

“Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [3]”

“Here beginneth the new life.”

“Chapter I, opening lines”

“In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria, dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica, la quale dice: Incipit vita nova. [1] In that book which is My memory ... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words ... Here begins a new life .”

“The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”

“For an African writing in English is not without its serious setbacks. He often finds himself describing situations or modes of thought which have no direct equivalent in the English way of life. Caught in that situation he can do one of two things. He can try and contain what he wants to say within the limits of conventional English or he can try to push back those limits to accommodate his ideas … I submit that those who can do the work of extending the frontiers of English so as to accommodate African thought-patterns must do it through their mastery of English and not out of innocence. Quoted by Kalu Ogbaa, Understanding Things Fall Apart (1999), Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-30294-7.”

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. Arrow of God (1988)”

“I have twice seen Macready act; once in Macbeth and once in Othello . I astounded a dinner”

“Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion than at my first visit. It is a wonderful place”

“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. 15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285”

“real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men.”

“The letters of Charlotte Brontë (edited by Margaret Smith), Vol. I: 1829”

“If you like poetry let it be first”

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Jane Eyre”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Carolyn Warner (1992), page 135”

“I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance”

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! In response to George Henry Lewes (LL, II, v, 272); Miriam Farris Allott (1974), The Brontës, the critical heritage, page 160;”

“La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France! The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!”

“On the public execution on 6 July 1840 of the valet François Benjamin Courvoisier , who had murdered his employer Lord William Russell .”

“I was present, myself, at the execution of Courvoisier . I was, purposely, on the spot, from midnight of the night before; and was a near witness of the whole process of the building of the scaffold, the gathering of the crowd, the gradual swelling of the concourse with the coming”

“O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations. The Chimes , Second Quarter”

“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8”

“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, In England there shall be dear bread”

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. Master Humphrey's Clock , (1840) Vol. 1”

“Love is not a feeling to pass away, Like the balmy breath of a summer day; It is not”

“If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford . Letter to Thomas Beard (11 January 1835), in Madeline House, et al ., The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965), p. 53”

“A Dinner at Poplar Walk”

“Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie, N'ont pas encor brodé de leurs plaisants dessins Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins, C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie .”

“Hypocrite lecteur,”

“L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”

“Delacroix était passionnément amoureux de la passion, et froidement déterminé à chercher les moyens d'exprimer la passion de la manière la plus visible. Dans ce double caractère, nous trouvons, disons”

“Hélas! tout est abîme,”

“Ébauche d’un épilogue pour la 2e édition,”

“La danse peut révéler tout ce que la musique recèle de mystérieux, et elle a de plus le mérite d'être humaine et palpable. La danse, c'est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs, ... Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [4]”

“Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s’efforçant de la comprendre. We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [3]”

“De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne,”

“Quelques mots d'introduction,”

“The poet is a small god who creates worlds with his words.”

“I want to write, but salt comes out of my pen.”

“There is, in the world, no such thing as a poor man who has not been rich for a moment.”

“Oh exalted unity! Oh that which is one/for all!/Love against space and time!”

“I love César Vallejo. When I read his poems, I feel so sad. [laughter] Claribel Alegría Interview”

“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies. p. 51”

“Los intelectuales son rebeldes, pero no revolucionarios. Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries. p. 18”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "Is Theology Poetry?"”

“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact . "Myth Became Fact"”

“Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic”

“Is Criticism Possible?”

“Our English syllabus”

“Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare”

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' Letter to Arthur Greeves”

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. Letter to Arthur Greeves”

“Lewis, C. S. (1991). Hooper, Walter. ed (in English).  All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922”

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene : and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do”

“I thought I introduced you!”

“Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. Jonathan Harker”

“You think to baffle me, you”

“One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever. Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra”

“Despair has its own calms. Jonathan Harker”

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. Jonathan Harker”

“We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Dracula to Jonathan Harker”

“Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask. The Jewel of Seven Stars , Chapter XIX: The Great Experiment”

“In my College days I had been Auditor of the Historical Society”

“I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years.”

“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non”

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half”

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

“What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them. "A British Commando", The Strand Magazine (June 1901), referencing the NRA Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan”

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. The White Company”

“I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me. (Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard”

“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement , the placation of the Almighty by blood”

“Testimony of an Enthusiast”

“These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural; nothing is. It is preternatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination, and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me”

“The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half”

“The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I would like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead."”

“Today is always still.”

“All uncertainty is fruitful, so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.”

“What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?”

“Death is something we should not fear because, while we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not.”

“The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.”

“I dreamt — marvellous error! — that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

“My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open on far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.”

“Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.”

“Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”

“The one thing that matters is to strive to attain something”

“Men have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”

“A goal without a plan is just a wish”

“The time that you have wasted for your rose is what makes your rose so important. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”

“You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”

“I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.”

“They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.”

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

“The Cushion in the Road”

“, and this Obama has shown he can do.”

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet. From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth .”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.”

“A long walk to freedom”

“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain. Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).”

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 .”

“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man ; royalty is the spirit of God . When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.”

“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances." Ch. 67: Conclusion.”

“weep, heart full of love , youth, and life ! Alas, would I could weep like you!”

“Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents ! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile . Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.”

“Ch. 9: D'Artagnan Shows Himself.”

“Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise All for one, one for all , that is our motto.”

“* My father was a mulatto , my grandfather was a Negro, and my great”

“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage”

“Ange Pitou , Vol. 1 chapter 7 (1854).”

“Rien ne réussit comme le succès. Nothing succeeds like success .”

“In the American continent, the fantastic is part of our everyday reality.”

“America is the only continent where different centuries coexist.”

“The novel is always a revelation of man. It is the mirror of a reality that is always changing.”

“History is never as we imagine it.”

“When the real becomes magical, we call it magical realism.”

“The magic of America lies in the fact that everything is extraordinary.”

“Latin America is the only continent where the real and the fantastic coexist naturally.”

“The baroque is a constant of the human spirit.”

“For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén , Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that whoever wants to understand Cuba cannot ignore its mestizo condition in which the Hispanic and African components cannot be divided because they have created a cosmovisión that is authentically original. Nancy Morejón Interview (2002) translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss.”

“Alejo Carpentier was absolutely wonderful. The Kingdom of the Earth is an exquisite little novel”

“Surtout point de zèle. ["Above all, no zeal"”

“Wordsworth in the Tropics”

“the Great Kings of Leinster,”

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Part IV: America , Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey ,”

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong. Part II: Malaya ,”

“Where are the Movies Moving?”

“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Those Barren Leaves”

“'There are quiet places also in the mind', he said meditatively. 'But we build bandstands and factories on them. Deliberately”

“Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now. It was imbecility every time. The Gioconda smile , in Mortal Coils”

“I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. I won't stand it. The Gioconda smile , in Mortal Coils”

“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to. 1984 in Alan Kay's paper Inventing the Future which appears in The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Karen Prendergast. As quoted by Eugene Wallingford in a post entiteled ALAN KAY'S TALKS AT OOPSLA on November 06, 2004 9:03 PM at the website of the Computer Science section of the University of Northern Iowa.”

“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. Hong Kong press conference in the late 1980s”

“Talk at Creative Think seminar, 20 July 1982”

“Point of view is worth 80 IQ points”

“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. talk at Creative Think seminar, 20 July 1982”

“[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around. Alan Kay (1972) in 1972 Rolling Stone article”

“Cf. Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (1963): "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."”

“Similar remarks are attributed to Peter Drucker and Dandridge M. Cole.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC”

“cried Poirot irritably.”

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory”

“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it.”

“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!”

“The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world”

“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. LIFE magazine”

“Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! Spider's Web”

“I have given them life instead of death , freedom instead of the cords of superstition , beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation . The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression . Akhenaten , as portrayed in Akhnaton (1937); Christie later revised the play slightly in 1972, and it was published in 1973.”