| Quotes |
Topic |
| Inspirational | We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. |
| University | A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. |
| Art and Artists | What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. |
| Body | The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. |
| Books | A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. |
| Evil | Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. |
| Impatience | Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. |
| Love | In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -W. H. Auden. |
| Love | Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. |
| Love lost | He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. |
| Names | Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. |
| Paradise | Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. |
| Patience | Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. |
| Sin | All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. |
| Talent | It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. |
| Generosity | We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. |
| Love | Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. |
| Love | Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can, all of them make me laugh. |
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