But memory is less disposed to compromise

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.