Life and Existence

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Just trust yourself and you’ll learn the art of living.

All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

She may very well pass for forty-three

My object all sublime

You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.

Your children are not your children.

Light (God’s eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

We dance round in a ring and suppose,

I never dared be radical when young

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say the world will end in fire,

Most of the change we think we see in life

I’d like to get away from earth awhile

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

What is the use of a new-born child?

Anatomy is destiny.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.