inspirational-quotes

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

There is always one woman to save you from another.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

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