I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.