“As katalikas, kai neturiu geresnio pasirinkimo”

“Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.”

“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”

“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”

“I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.”

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”

“. . . And she said it was a pity, because my father was so “keen”, and what did I care about?So I said, well, I was not quite sure, but on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being bothered to do things, and laughing at the kind of joke other people didn’t think at all funny, and going for country walks, and not being asked to express opinions about things (like love, and isn’t so-and-so peculiar?). So then she said, oh, well, didn’t I think I could try to be a little less slack, because of Father, and I said no, I was I afraid I couldn’t; and after that she left me alone. But all the others still said I was no good.”