I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other...
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t...
If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.
Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.
Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercours...
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
But what a horrible world 'society' is.
Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.
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