Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.