Book detail: Notebooks, 1951-1959 is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book is a compilation of notebooks containing personal reflections, thoughts, and musings from the author during the specified decade.
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“Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.”
“One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.”
“Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.”
“The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.”
“The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.”
“I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.”
“It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.”