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There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

We learn nothing by being right.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.