“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090
“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”
"A Wife's Confession"
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. <!-- 116
Source: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
“A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.”
“If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”
“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
