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All Quotes Collection
"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories."
108
"In general, every country has the language it deserves."
160
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
76
"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
262
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
38
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
34
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
62
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
179
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
59
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
149
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
61
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
55
"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future."
169
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
40
"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
62
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
46
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
55
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
43
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
62
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
28
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
40
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
53
"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
154
"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."
190
"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason."
36
"Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason."
46
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
72
"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination."
43
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
55
"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."
63
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."
87
"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"
40
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
112
"The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods."
29
"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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