Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive o...
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be macke...
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.
Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truth
The feelings I don't have I don't have.The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.The felings you say you have, you don't have.
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now qui...
If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously.