It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.