We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.