“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest.