“I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
“Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.”
“Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.”
“I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.”
“There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.”