The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.