Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 20, 1882 Death: June 10, 1949
No doing without some ruing..
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had ….
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of….
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path..
In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living w….
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes..
All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them..
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle..
All fires burn out at last..
Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson..
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you ….
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love..
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with ….
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wid….
I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and fol….
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour..
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh,….
But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people..
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom..
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate..
I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot..