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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Language is wine upon the lips.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.