That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

There is no gift more great than love.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.