#16 Anton Chekhov on The 500+ Best Writers of All Time #21 Aldous Huxley on The Best Science-Fiction Authors Of All Time COLLECTION40 LISTSChina Authors Physicians Artists Presen- ters Movies Poets Screen- writers Philo- sophers...
and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalentto what others get by churchgoing and prayer.I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,grand and ...
“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone. Make good use of it.” “I don’t believe in pure luck. You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.” “It...
Solitude 1 “It took me a lifetime.” — Pablo Picasso 1 “Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it… myself included.” — Pablo Pica...
18. Jean de La Bruyére - “This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude.” --- 19. Jean de La Bruyére - “If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I wo...
“If I’m just having, like, four to eight people over, we gather around the table, and it’s more loose. But if there’s more than 20 people coming over, then I think about setting up different stations in my home to force people to mingle. We’ll have a corner where the bevera...
Washington Irving Quotes about men “Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? — No — no, ‘tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.” — Washington Irving Book III, ch. 2 This...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most famous poem was Solitude which contains the lines: Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude 69. “The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.”— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 70. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They ...
His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by his works being available in English, by the Latin American Boom and by the success of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. ...