To anyone who will take the trouble to become attached to her she will immediately give a devoted, generous, imaginative and completely uncapricious attention, which is still a calculated avoidance of...
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel....
Art both expresses and gratifies the lowest part of the soul, and feeds and enlivens base emotions which ought to be left to wither.
It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Where’s your house?’ ‘Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.
Is your father writing a book? said Alison. No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists.
What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully...
Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what...
I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I...
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
Human beings crave for novelty and welcome even wars. Who opens the morning papers without the wild hope of huge headlines announcing another great disaster? Provided of course that it affects other p...
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
There are mysterious agencies of the human mind which, like roving gases, travel the world, causing pain and mutilation, without their owners having any full awareness, or even any awareness at all, o...
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
—No niegas que hay una causalidad… —dijo Morgan que estaba decidida a no enfadarse con él. Pero deseaba de todo corazón que se marchara.Julius se sentó en uno de los sillones, quitó un cojín y se puso...
there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart
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