This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

loveliness is infernally sad.

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?