“Alle unsere endgültigen Entschlüsse werden in einem sehr vergänglichen Gemütszustand gefaßt.”

“Wir werden von einem Leiden nur geheilt, indem wir es bis zum Letzten auskosten.”

“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.”

“Now are the woods all black,But still the sky is blue.”

“Like the fires caught and fixed by a great colourist from the impermanence of the atmosphere and the sun, so that they should enter and adorn a human dwelling, they invited me, those chrysanthemums, to put away all my sorrows and to taste with a greedy rapture during that tea-time hour the all-too-fleeting pleasures of November, whose intimate and mysterious splendour they set ablaze all around me.”

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”

“You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!”