To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.