12 quotes found
“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
“There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more”
“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him while men simply did not know him.”
“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”
“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”
“At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn li...”
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque, choosing a profession and practicing it, grabbing one's share of the co...”
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didnt fill...”
“We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a nave sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of l...”
“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his souls possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep...”
“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a ladys a...”
“He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first case you are relieving someone of life, not his whole life but a half or a quarter or a hundredth ...”
