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One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.