It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.