You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.