Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.