People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.