“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
― Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
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“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
― Literary Portraits
― Literary Portraits
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
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