But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about th….

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it s….

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be ….

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionar….

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, ….

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from ….

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time..

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy day….

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generatio….

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully..

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept..

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man..

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and fol….

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored ….

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wander….

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here t….

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many yea….

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had gi….

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitat….

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of gro….

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence..