We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.