For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.