For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.