We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?