I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.