A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
nobody ever dies of an indignity.