In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

Doubtless there are other roads.

In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.