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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one ...more

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieve...more

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And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Me...more

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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often ...more

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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's h...more

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What did it all mean? He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, the limitations which his body forced upon him, hi...more

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create...more

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I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the m...more

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He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure and vague . . . He saw what look...more

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Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had seemed horrible when it was...more

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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a d...more

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He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From ...more

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They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure