"I can do small things in a great way."
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"That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough."
"That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed."
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."
"I would not change very much about the American theater. I marvel and rejoice in the way the country's regional theaters have formed a network that has become, in essence, our National Theater."
"Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction."
"I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself."
"Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts."
"The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody."
"To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way."
"There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it."
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand."
"It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking."
"We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure."
"Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity."
"There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things."
"Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life."
"There is a way to be good again."
"I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane."