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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

How goodness heightens beauty!

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Metafor itu berbahaya. Cinta bermula dengan sepotong metafor. Dikatakan, cinta bermula pada suatu titik ketika seorang perempuan memasukkan kata pertamanya ke dalam memori kita.

Suara tawa seperti kubah berkubah dari kuil kebahagiaan.

Anda tidak dapat mengukur kasih sayang timbal balik dari dua manusia dengan jumlah kata yang mereka pertukarkan.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.