51 quotes found
“The color of truth is grey.”
“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”
“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
“Those who have eyesdo not know their happiness.”
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
“There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.”
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
“But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness s...”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves al...”
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”
“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere ...”
“Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own self that each of them is most afraid of...”
“I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
“This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.”
