Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

Thinking is my fighting.

all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

A light here required a shadow there.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.