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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.

Helping others Quotes

We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.

Helping others Quotes

There’s always another story. There’s more than meets the eye.

Stories Quotes

If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other’s devils.

In a tragic contradiction between the normal and the exceptional, there is suffering, in a comic contradiction, none.

For love: a poet. For romance: a journalist.

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they are in an abridged edition, and you lose the life of the work. Don’t think that art that is alive can remain on the same level of interest throughout – and the same is true of life.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

One can only blaspheme if one believes.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one’s gifts?

Any society is in danger of dismissing the virtue of another society because of its vices, and a democracy is always in danger of not paying enough attention to manners and forms.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

There is a difference between a villain and one who simply commits a crime. The villain is an extremely conscious person and commits a crim consciously, for its own sake.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they’ve realised they can’t get away with it.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

I write because I love to play with language.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

It’s usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes – ah, there’s a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that’s genuinely good From one that’s base but merely has succeeded.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

I’m always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive – it’s so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one’s own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other’s good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

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