"I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world an…"

"The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the …"

"For myself, and I was not alone, all the conscious and recollected years of my life have been lived to this day under…"

"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality th…"

"Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to thos…"

"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been pu…"

"I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul."

"I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore."

"It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don’t do it consciou…"

"The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the ve…"