Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.
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.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
But what a horrible world 'society' is.
If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.
Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.