Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.