I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.