Writer

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Jangan pernah mempercayai pendongeng, percayalah pada kisahnya.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Usia kita pada dasarnya adalah usia yang tragis, jadi kita menolak untuk menganggapnya tragis.

Kita harus tetap hidup, tak peduli sudah berapa langit yang runtuh.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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