Novelist

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Kebenaran yang sederhana yang bisa saya janjikan, dan juga ketulusan. Ketulusan yang lengkap dan patut dipuji yang, meskipun memberikan seseorang ke tangan musuh, kemungkinan besar tidak akan melibatkan seseorang dengan teman-temannya.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Bagi seorang guru bahasa, tibalah saatnya dunia hanyalah tempat banyak kata dan manusia tampak seperti hewan berbicara yang tidak jauh lebih indah daripada burung beo.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.