Quote #30838
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Quote #27087
It used to take courage–indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence–to leave...
Quote #25194
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have...
Quote #23420
The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Quote #8127
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do...
Quote #17232
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Quote #13667
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and...
Quote #17866
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. – Notebook, 1898
Quote #372
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
Quote #22882
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.