“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?”

“When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.”

“You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it... Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.”

“That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.”

“Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have been twisted in the same way. It's as though every tree has made up its own mind exactly how it wants to grow.”

“But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes. It is full of wraths.”