I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory.

Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.

I have been crying, " she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

Jacob was a gift from the gods.