In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to rea...d Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artis...t to work in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unf...olding of his capacities and talents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a fundamental characteristic of civilization that man most profoundly mistrusts those living outside his own milieu, so that... not only does the Teuton regard the Jew as an incomprehensible and inferior being, but the football player likewise so regards the piano player.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different op...inion? Then it is a literary milieu.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smarter ...salons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people ar...e arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »