Short Quotes · Page 55
Big wisdom in few words—the best short quotes pack a lifetime of insight into a single sentence. Perfect for captions, cards, or a moment of daily reflection.
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“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.”
“A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.”
“It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized.”
“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body.”
“Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe.”
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”