All Sayings

When a society is deeply divided, it tends to commit suicide collectively.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The most difficult thing is to love the world and not to despise it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation.

When you have to deal with a man, you have to deal with his whole history.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.