To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!