Posts from ‘July, 2008’

There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.
The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call [...]

People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned [...]

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Make the most of [...]

Here are some nice quotes and sayings by Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not [...]

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.
There are some things you can’t share without ending up [...]

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.
I never liked you, and I always will.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is [...]