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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as s...  
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to fr...  
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on ...  
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full fac...  
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scien...  
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic ...  
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressibl...   Music
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, gi...  
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interest...  
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.  
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder...  
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their cu...  
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only complete...  
Dream in a pragmatic way.  
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself...  
Every man's memory is his private literature.  
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify th...  
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happ...  
Experience teaches only the teachable.  
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.  
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (histo...  
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals...  
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is ...  
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dar...  
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their w...  
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any...  
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.  
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.  
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.  
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things f...  
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't w...  
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking...  
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mi...  
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and there...  
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of c...  
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siam...  
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay ...  
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wis...  
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of hu...  
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neith...  
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced t...  
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.  
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal cl...  
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleon...  
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.  
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.  
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient mean...  
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, n...  
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the mos...  
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusi...  
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody els...  
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the ki...  
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that...  
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man pre...  
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and u...   Intelligence
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because the...  
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be prove...  
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do ...  
The proper study of mankind is books.  
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,...  
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man mig...  
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all ...  
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of...  
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by pa...  
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improvin...  
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowl...  
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of do...  
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.  
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, ...  
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.  
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.  
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the ...  
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes hav...  
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent...  
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideolog...  
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.  
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.  
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is...