Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.