At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.