“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
― The Ambassadors
― The Ambassadors
“There's the truth, which is what literally happened. And then there's the Truth - what emotionally happened. So much of poetry exists in the capital T.”
― Cross My Heart: A Novel
― Cross My Heart: A Novel
“How could he uphold the law when that law upheld injustice?”
― Live from Cairo
― Live from Cairo
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
― A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
― A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
― Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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