The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.