We have really no absent friends.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.