Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer. - André Gide

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

I had resigned my temporary lectureship — thankless, dreary work, from which I would be suddenly distracted by the slightest song, the slightest sound coming from the country outside; in every passing cry I heard an invitation. How often I have leapt from my reading and run to the window to see — nothing pass by! How often I have hurried out of doors. . . The only attention I found possible was that of my five senses.