If I had not been born a dogged devil I should have blown my brains out.

If I had been born gentler or kinder or more patient I should perhaps have lived it down and found there was something left.

A man's way of facing things depends upon the kind of thing he was born.

I went on living _without_--the rest of myself.

I closed my mouth and not only my mouth but my life--as far as other men and women were concerned.
When I found an interest stirring in me I shut another door--that was all.