"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
"Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."
"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
"La vrai disette, c'est l'absence de livres. (Real poverty is lack of books.)"
"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change."
"In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge."
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
"It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round."
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
"It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship."
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
"We only do well the things we like doing."
"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
"When, like me, one has nothing in oneself one hopes for everything from another."
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
"Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
"We only do well the things we like doing."
"It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round."
"When, like me, one has nothing in oneself one hopes for everything from another."
"In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge."