... there are shadows because there are hills.
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
Money pads the edges of things.
They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
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