All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.