It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it..

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story..

The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are th….

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing w….

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades..

I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a j….

through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most da….

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience..

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told….

It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if….

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of mor….

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly ima….

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his ….

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred..

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him..

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest..

During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whos….

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not ….

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of..

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, ….

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul..