Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.