The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.