All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story..

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself..

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with tha….

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me..

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a t….

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa..

Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The hab….

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature —….

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all ….

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and ju….

I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of t….

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be stud….

When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerab….

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a he….

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them..

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady..

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again..

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy..

A great artist is never poor..

Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of….

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned.