Poet

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Sahabat sejati selalu menusukmu dari depan.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Pria yang mengatakan bahwa dia telah menghabiskan hidup secara umum berarti bahwa hidup telah menghabiskannya.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Saya berani mengatakan bahwa jika saya mengenalnya saya seharusnya tidak menjadi temannya sama sekali. Ini adalah hal yang sangat berbahaya untuk mengenal teman seseorang.

Setiap orang hebat saat ini memiliki murid-muridnya, dan biasanya Yudas yang menulis biografi.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Siapa pun dapat menulis novel tiga jilid. Itu hanya membutuhkan ketidaktahuan sepenuhnya tentang kehidupan dan sastra.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Apa yang dikatakan tentang seorang pria bukanlah apa-apa. Intinya adalah, siapa yang mengatakannya.

Tidak ada yang namanya buku moral atau tidak bermoral. Buku buku ditulis dengan baik, atau buruk.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.