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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth!

Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.

And not there, not there, not there,
Your laughing face and your wind-blown hair
Leave not even a ghost in the garden.

No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

Those who prepare for war get it.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.