“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”

“Every man carries within him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.A parlor game for a wet afternoon – imaging the mirrors of one’s friends. A has a huge pier glass, gilded and baroque, B a discreet little pocket mirror in a pigskin case with his initials stamped on the back; whenever one looks at C, he is in the act of throwing his mirror away but, if one looks in his pocket or up his sleeve, one always finds another, like an extra ace.”

“He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.”

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. ”

“It is impossible to get rid of a book, once I take a look inside.”

“It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.”