Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!