He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.