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

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

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

“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...”

“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...”