147 quotes found
“Reality confounds image.”
“Told ya you were special.”
“Our trust goes beyond the darkness.”
“Art is not democratic. Art is sublime.”
“Never base motivation or fear, entirely.”
“To admit what you see endangers principles.”
“Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happ...”
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barel...”
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire another. I went from festivity to festivity. On occasion I danced for nights on end, ev...”
“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true...”
“False judges are held up in the worlds admiration and I alone know the true ones.”
“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human comm...”
“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”
“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, ...”
“You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.”
“Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.”
“Twelve years ago, when I was 10, I played at being a soldier. I walked up the brook behind our house in Bronxville to a junglelike, overgrown field and dug trenches down to water level with my frie...”
“Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Companys in trouble, and we have to help them. Were in r...”
“Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?”
“We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.”
“It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.”
“Fear and greatness cannot exist within the same space.”
“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existi...”
“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”
“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”
