- "The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."
- "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- "The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
- "The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since."
- "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."
- "Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
- "Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."
- "It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
- "I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
- "Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
- "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- "Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
- "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
- "A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."
- "A gentleman can live through anything."
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