Famous quotes by Novelists

"The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Boredom: the desire for desires"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Read much, but not many books"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

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