I don't like compliments$$$ and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again$$$ there is no use in reading it at all.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old$$$ my parents were alive$$$ and God still dwelt in our town.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Music does not replace words$$$ it gives tone to the words.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love$$$ the only survival$$$ the only meaning.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

When the materials are ready$$$ the architects shall appear.