our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.Collection: Substance
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.Collection: Pity
Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.Collection: Marriage
It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.Collection: Looks
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.Collection: New York
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.Collection: Impossible Things
things never seem as bad as they are.Collection: Trouble
It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.Collection: Believe
... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.Collection: Beautiful