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“We move between two darknesses.”
“Travel was a species of warfare.”
“And Englishmen like posing as gods.”
“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”
“Too late... everything's always too late.”
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: lov...”
“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”
“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
“He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.”
“This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. ...”
“I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplici...”
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose...”
“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and...”
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
“I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked an...”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of...”
“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in bl...”
“Eccolo! he exclaimed.At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. Light and beauty enveloped her. She had fallen on to a little open terrace, which was covered w...”
“An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.”
“Mr. Herriton, dont please, Mr. Herriton a dentist. His fathers a dentist. Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A de...”
