“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid s...”

“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”

“No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go d...”