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1205 Critic Quotes

Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.

Passion Live Life's sake Experience
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A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries

Human being Lives Personal life Individual
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Goodness Love Death No sovereignty
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty, unfamiliar and perilous.
Solitude Gives birth Original Beauty
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Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
Thought comes Clearly One walks
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Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.

Any lover Desired To please Suffered agonies
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Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Deep The well Past Call it
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He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

Relationship Man Determined by The woman
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Now I believe that writing is somewhat a risky trade out there.

I believe Writing Risky trade Out there
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I have no faith in anything. That consists of my fortune too.

Have No faith In anything Consist
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In case the artist happens to be better he appears to be more vulnerable.

Artist happen Be better Appears More vulnerable
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The game’s language happens to be money, and therefore, it seems to be like gambling.

Game's language Be money Like gambling
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Divorce has the ability to convert habit into a drama.

Divorce Ability Convert habit Drama
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Reading the minds of people is simple to me.

Reading Minds People Simple
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Simply speaking, despair is able to look for its own environment just as water which is able to locate its own level.

Despair Look Own environment Water
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None is going to commit suicide unless something is terribly wrong in his life
Going to Commit suicide Unless something Terribly wrong
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None is going to kill himself unless he is going through really torrid times in his life
Kill himself Going through Really Torrid times
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You can easily laugh at an insult and try to pretend that it is somewhat hilarious when the guy hoses you with cash while insulting you.

Easily laugh An insult Pretend Hilarious
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I'm tired Hearing Democracy Work
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Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
Spend half Our time Wishing For things
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Such thing Anyone's life Unimportant day
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Body Spirit Are twins God
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Today will die tomorrow.

Today Will die Tomorrow
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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Fate Sea A shore The soul
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

The world Dreams Have chosen My part
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Let weakness learn meekness.

Let weakness Learn meekness
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Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Fear Makes faith May break
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end

Have lived One thing Love An end
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There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

No God Found stronger Death Sleep
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Hope Fear speaks Truth Blind
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day

Life Unimportant Day
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Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.

Character Stand Reputation Fall
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Contents Bookcase History Ancestral
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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

People Love She Drowned
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
Book Good Read Great
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Feel Lending Book Fathers
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death.

Love Truth Beauty Wisdom
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Moment Book Lent Begin
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome Poem Service City
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Friends Stop Frank Useful
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We Tourists History Irony
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Tension Yes No Can
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Time Nothing Children Obedience
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Like Book Slowly Read
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Something Real People Stage
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Age Given Letter-writing Important
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Years Using Role Sex-object
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