Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

How could I miss you while you are never off of my mind.....while you are never missing from my heart

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

We have all had stupid youths, ' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.

I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?