

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden

“One of the things that I have liked all these years is to be surrounded by people who know no english. It has left me more intensely alone with my eyes and my english. I do not know if it would have been possible to have english be so all in all to me otherwise. And they none of them could read a word I wrote, most of them did not even know that I did write. No, I like living with so very many people and being all alone with english and myself.”
― The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
― The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in americans it expresses itself b disembodiedness, in literature and machinery, in Spain by ritual so abstract that it does not connect itself with anything but ritual.”
― The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
― The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“I don't know what's the matter with me. Last night I thought I was in love with a man and to-night I think I'm in love with youâ€�"—it seemed to him a beautiful and romantic thing to say.”
― Winter Dreams
― Winter Dreams

“Du gehst und gehst â€� du wirst von solchem Gange niemals zu rechter Zeit nach Hause zurückkehren, denn du bist der Zeit und sie ist dir abhanden gekommen.”
― Der Zauberberg
― Der Zauberberg
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