It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, no...
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
How fast the stream flows from January to December!
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
Books - books - books, said Helen, in her absent-minded way. More new books - I wonder what you find in them...
Ah well, so be it. The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent’s Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one...
Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?
You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and in...
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win t...
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, a...
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain wher...
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.