“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
Love“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
Home“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
Love“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”
Time“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
Music“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
Beauty“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
Food“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
Power“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
Courage“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
Power“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”
War“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”
Art“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Beauty“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.”
God“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
Happiness“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
Experience“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
History“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.”
Food“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”
Courage“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
Dreams“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
Money“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”
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