When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!