There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

Oh, I am in love with life!

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

Words belong to each other.

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.