Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

Cowards are afraid even of happiness. They get hurt on cotton.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-- Oscar Wilde

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

-- Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

-- Virginia Woolf

One must always be drunk. That is everything: the only question.

-- Charles Baudelaire

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

-- William Shakespeare

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

-- Alexander Pushkin