Archives - November 2001

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Laughter is a part of the human survival kit.

There are some things you learn better in calm and some in storm.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely to the eye.

Grumbling is the death of love.

Life without faith is an arid business.

Pity is the least of the emotions.

Style is being yourself, but on purpose.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Every day, people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

One can only believe, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

Time bears all things away, even the mind.

Travelers, like poets, are mostly an angry race.

Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.

It is very necessary to have makers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.

Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

The nature of bad news infects the teller.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Few men have been admired by their servants.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots.

Stretching out to catch stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

Good swiping is an art in itself.