580 quotes found
“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky o...”
“Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.”
“In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.”
“An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.”
“Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.”
“At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.”
“Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
“To know oneself one should assert oneself.”
“If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.”
“We call first truths those we discover after all the others.”
“I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.”
“There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.”
“There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
“To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.”
“In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.”
“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”
