You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

She came as everything I had dreamed of. <3And the worst part? She remained a dream. :')

To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do.

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.

I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.