In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.