It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
It is fate that I am here,? George persisted, ’but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.