Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Conditional love. Far from Gods original love.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.

I believe in a woman's right to choose.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

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