Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.