Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.