The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it