Read quote“A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream?”
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Read quote“But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.”
Read quote“Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock — this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!”
Read quote“It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”
Read quote“A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.”
Read quote“Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.”
Read quote“And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it!”
Read quote“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.”
Read quote“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Read quote“Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
Read quote“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
Read quote“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Read quote“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”
Read quote“You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.”
Read quote“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Read quote“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools.”
Read quote“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
Read quote“As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”
Read quote“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”
Read quote“Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs!”