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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.   Death
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental e...  
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for...  
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of intere...  
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of crit...  
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companio...  
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.  
Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.  
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fa...  
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you...  
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of...  
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.  
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a s...  
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life...  
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that sh...  
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unh...  
This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half f...  
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-st...  
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.