He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.