"It is in the treatment of trifles..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.”

“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”

“Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.”

“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”

“We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.”

“She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”

“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”

“Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”

“You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.”