They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.