Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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