Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.