A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. |
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. |
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers |
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper |
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper |
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. |
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. |
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. |
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom |
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom |
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. |