Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.