“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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