Who Wrote That? #20

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

“She leaned far out on the window-sill,

"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."

“It was many and many a year ago,

"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."