There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud’s fiance after he teased her for being sweet, “Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, ‘Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.
The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
There seemed to be that same fierce quest after truth, the same unafraid penetration, the same feeling that character is beauty, no matter how sordid it may appear.
They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.
Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.