I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and m….

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace..

The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it..

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion..

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth..

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water..

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself..

Have you ever heard the earth breath?.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind content….

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what..

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself..

The delicious breath of rain was in the air..

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender wit….

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was fu….

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost..

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women ….

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.

I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life.….

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said..

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water.