Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.