You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
almost all novels are love stories.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?