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“It’s late- I have all the windows open, and the air outside, is just as soft as spring… Why do they make spring a young girl, why does that illusion dance and yodel its way for three months through the world’s preposterous barrenness.
Spring is a lean old plough horse with its ribs showing.”

“She was not strong, because she never knew that some of the things she did were brave.”

“In his moments of insecurity he was haunted by the suggestion that life might be, after all, significant.”

“After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity.”

“In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.”

“My mind is full of any number of material things. I want a warm bath too much to worry about the importance of my work or what percentage of us are pathetic figures.”

“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. The fiber of my mind coarsened and my eyes grew miserably keen.

Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming.”

“These days seem so short- June seemed- to- have- longer days when I was a little girl.”