“The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
“As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
“Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.”
“If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.”
“Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.”
Claudio Magris
Scholar
Gunter Grass
Novelist
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Writer
Jose Saramago
Writer
Kenzaburo Oe
Author
Lu Xun
Novelist
Ma Jian
Writer
Mo Yan
Novelist
V. S. Naipaul
Writer
