Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
A lot of people think, or at least feel, that anyone who does not share their habits and enthusiasms is an enemy. In matters of essential ideas, I find intransigence logical.
The clarity in science is necessary; but in literature, it is not. To see clearly is philosophy. To see clearly in the mystery is literature. That's what Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, Dostoevsky did...
The law is inexorable, like dogs: it only barks at those who are poorly dressed.
The death is someone who withdraws from himself and returns to us. There are no more dead than those carried by the living.
If you want to do something in life, don't believe in the word impossible. Nothing is impossible for a strong will.
So in life, many times, one does not know if it is oneself pushing the events or if it is the events that drag one along.
Mature age is the one in which you are still young, but with much more effort.
I am not so young as to know everything.
Every man's life is a diary in which he tries to write a story but writes another.
Never attribute to an adversary motivations more vile than your own.
We never understand how little we need from this world until we realize that we have lost it.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.