A novel should be an act of divination by entrails, not a careful record of a game of pat-ball on some vicarage lawn!
A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You do this to see if his psyche has any real bounce in it,...
Первое, что он сделал, когда рехнулся, — затеял судебный процесс против собственных сыновей, двоих из нас, выдвинув обвинение в сознательной и злонамеренной незаконнорожденности.
This is nothing of medical interest — a small chill. Diseases are not interested in those who want to die.’ And then with one of those characteristic swerves of association, like a swallow turning in...
There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.’ And
Minds dismembered by their sexual part’ Balthazar had said once ‘never find peace until old age and failing power as persuade them that silence and quietness are not hostile.
A drunken whore walks in a dark street at night, shedding snatches of song like petals. Was it in this that Anthony heard the heart-numbing strains of the great music which persuaded him to surrender...
Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.
The cousin was made of different stuff; his biting air of laziness and superiority made one want to kick him.