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'Sympathy has perhaps no alphabet, but it is to be hoped that one day it will be triumphant throughout the whole world.'

'The most remarkable thing about man's dreams is that they all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it.'

'Not only had he seen cities and zoological gardens, he had also wandered in the woods where one finds happiness, or at least peace, and he knew the words that fit the locked compartments of the soul, like keys, and open them.'

'two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other, there is nothing so tragical as two human beings.'

'The bookseller was busy boiling some fresh fish on an oil-stove; the steam from the pan filled the room, and the many shelves sagging beneath the weight of literature were lost like belts of crags in the fog.'

'Nothing in life is so beautiful as the night before what is yet to be, the night and its dew.'

'Shortly afterwards it started raining, very innocently at first, but the sky was packed tight with cloud and gradually the drops grew bigger and heavier, until it was autumn's dismal rain that was falling – rain that seemed to fill the entire world with its leaden beat, rain suggestive in its dreariness of everlasting waterfalls between the planets, rain that thatched the heavens with drabness'

'it was one of those days of early summer which have living faces – white packs of cloud cross the heavens like thoughts'

'On such a day the sun is stronger than the past.'