Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.
Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.
Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.