Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Done because we are too many.