The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.