“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“The rich are always afraid.”

“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let it flow. There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. There was always more. Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon the ground to save her clothing, and it sank into the earth and made a soft, dark, rich spot in the field. The child fat and good-natured and ate of the inexhaustible life his mother gave him.”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”