If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
The mind I love must have wild places.
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart – oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape – of your sister.
Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been – Nothing!
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
When I say “I fear” – don’t let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone – reading between the lines – has bcome the secret friend of their author.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.
I am poor – obscure – just eighteen years of age – with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives – one is so very small – but that is the satisfaction of writing – one can impersonate so many people.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.