Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life$$$ one cannot always be counting the cost.

I put my genius into my life$$$ not into my art.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer$$$ life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

...I am interested in everything$$$ interrupted Gumbril Junior. Which comes to the same thing$$$ said his father parenthetically$$$ as being interested in nothing.

If you're always scared of dying$$$ Obispo had said$$$ "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either."

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary$$$ the means always determine the end.