Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

It’s not the dress you wear

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

Prayer means dependence on the Lord.

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.