It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.