That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.