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Quotes by Novelist
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
41
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
41
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
41
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
40
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
40
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
40
"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
39
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
39
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
39
"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."
39
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
Life,
39
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
37
"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."
37
"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
37
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
36
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
36
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
36
"In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference."
36
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
36
"Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins."
35
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
35
"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
35
"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."
35
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
35
"World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought."
35
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
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