It isn't possible to love and to part.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

English literature is a flying fish.

A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.

History develops, art stands still.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.