Grey put me up for his club. I dine there most evenings. Fellows there have been extraordinarily kind. I go out often, I know many people. Sometimes I remember what Jake said about me being successful...
For myself, I could think of nothing more likely to cause panic and consternation among a crowd of women than to be shut up within a church without their menfolk, and to have the incessant clanging of...
Es inútil, ¿verdad? Nunca la podrá vencer. Está muerta, pero aún manda aquí. Ella es la señora de verdad, y no usted. Aquien olvidan y dan de lado y rechazan... es a usted. ¿Por qué no se va de Mander...
Dust unto dust. There was no reason then for life—it was only a fraction of a moment between birth and death, a movement upon the surface of water, and then it was still. Janet had loved and suffered,...
Don’t be silly. Now, watch… Very slowly Maria pushed the comforter into Caroline’s mouth. It acted as a sort of gag. Caroline sucked noisily, and closed her eyes. The effect was magic. The crying ceas...
Did you think that? said Maria. So did I. Oh, Niall… if I ever marry and have a baby, will you have it for me? It would be one way of getting famous, anyway, said Niall.
Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain.
Camina solo e irás más lejos
But once a woman stole the initiative, plundered the perquisites and took the lead, what happened to the globe? The fabric cracked
But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a qualit...
Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.
Aucun de nous n'a envie de revivre ce passé. Maxim moins que tout autre. Et c'est à vous, comprenez-le, de nous en détacher. Il ne faut pas nous y ramener.
As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.
And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot s...
And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural.
All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.
All this, is only momentary, is only a fragment in time that will never come again, for yesterday already belongs to the past and is ours no longer, and tomorrow is an unknown thing that may be hostil...
Acknowledgments I wish to thank the following for their great help in making known to me the many facts relating to my forebears, the Bussons, during the hundred years from 1747–1845, as well as the h...
A wave of perfume came from these fine folk, a strange exotic scent like flowers no longer fresh, whose petals curl, and this stale richness somehow mingled with the drab dirt of those beside us, pres...
Somewhere there is a Dona of tomorrow, a Dona of the future, of ten years away, to whom all of this will be a thing to cherish, a thing to remember. Much will be forgotten then, perhaps, the sound of...