She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.