Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.