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

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.

That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.

Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.

How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.

People keep changing colours time and again. Today your words have so much value and you stress for their opinion, tomorrow you don’t even exist to them.

Somebody does somethin’ stupid, that’s human. They don’t stop when they see it’s wrong, that’s a fool.

Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Kindness affects both humans and plants.