Famous quotes by Novelists

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Not all the monsters have fangs"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"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

Gustave Flaubert

"Read much, but not many books"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Boredom: the desire for desires"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"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

Leo Tolstoy

"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

Leo Tolstoy

"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

Leo Tolstoy

"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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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