All memories are bitter, and I prefer to ignore them. Something happened a year ago that altered my whole life, and I want to forget every phase in my existence up to that time. Those days are finishe...
A woman of feeling does not easily give way. You may call it pride, or tenacity, call it what you will. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, their emotions are more primitive than ours. They...
A solitary curlew stood pensively beside the stream, watching his reflection in the water; and then his long beak darted with incredible swiftness into the reeds, stabbing at the soft mud, and, turnin...
A mí se me nota todo en la cara; si me gusta alguien o no, si estoy enfadada o contenta. No me callo nunca.
A master glass-maker must accustom himself to moving on. In old days they had always been wanderers, going from one forest to another, settling for a few years only.
A man’s jealousy is like a child’s, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman’s jealousy is adult, which is very different.
A lilac had mated with a copper beech, and to bind them yet more closely to one another the malevolent ivy, always an enemy to grace, had thrown her tendrils about the pair and made them prisoners.
A girl can't live alone, Mary, without she goes queer in the head, or comes to evil. It's either one or the other.
A cloud, hitherto unseen, came upon the moon, and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face.The illusion went with it, and the lights in the windows were extinguished. I looked upon a desolate...
Кажется, существует теория, что страдания облагораживают людей, делают их сильнее и, чтобы шагнуть вперёд, мы должны пройти искус огнём. Этого нам досталось с лихвой, как ни иронически звучат мои слов...
If we killed women for their tongues all men would be murderers.
His warm eyes that made her heart feel daft like a bleating sheep.
The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy.
And through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.
Men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.
Many impressions to seize and hold, familiar loved façades, balconies, windows, water lapping the cellar steps of decaying palaces, the little red house where D’Annunzio lived, with its garden—our hou...
It was hell how one always wanted a little more
You have qualities that are just as important, far more so, in fact. It's perhaps cheeky of me to say so, I don't know you very well. I'm a bachelor, I don't know very much about women, I lead a quiet...
When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patte...
When the last toast had been given my mother had to take off her finery and put on a traveling dress, then mount one of the foundry wagons with the rest of them, and so drive away to her new home in t...