Great Throughts Treasury

"Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones."

"He walked noisily, like a fish."

"He would feed the words in the palm of his hand."

"How can you prove if we are currently sleeping and our thoughts are a dream, or if we are awake and talking to each other in the waking state?"

"I am afraid I shall not find Him, but I shall still look for Him. If He exists, He may be appreciative of my efforts."

"I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself."

"I am not sincere, even when I say I am not."

"I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued."

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries."

"I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me."

"I have no religion,? says Borneau, ?but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.? Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?"

"I have not even had a chance to miss a train which it happened an accident."

"If the rest is still a little work, it is all the result of boredom."

"In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg."

"It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live."

"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."

"It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody"

"It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish."

"Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired."

"Listening only his courage, which meant nothing to him, he took care not to intervene"

"Love is like an hourglass: as the heart fills, the brain empties."

"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."

"Men are created equal.ÿThe next day, they are no longer."

"Monkey: a man who has failed."

"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."

"Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live. I think I would rather possess eyes that know no sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know no touch than a heart that knows no love. To handle yourself, use your head, to handle others, use your heart. Love is like an hourglass With the heart filling up As the brain empties"

"Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it."

"Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?"

"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart."

"Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes."

"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."

"The bourgeois are other people."

"The caret is the swallow of writing."

"The danger of success is that it makes us forget the terrible injustice of the world."

"The dream is the luxury of thinking."

"The fear of boredom is the only excuse for work."

"The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat."

"the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart."

"The irony is mostly a mind game.ÿThe humor is more a game of heart, a set of sensitivity."

"The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it."

"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."

"The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

"The woman is spending a reed."

"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."

"There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last"

"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois"

"To live every day with the same people, keep them with the attitude that if we would only see them every three months."