A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
A light here required a shadow there.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
There are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it…
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.