Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.