Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.