“Heart failure, it explains nothing! I have yet to meet a corpse whose heart it still beats.”

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

“... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”