“I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got one's second.”
“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”
“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”
“And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.”
“Feeling one "has"; love occurs.”
“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.”