I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

All intimacies are based on differences.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.