A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else’s husband.
She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.
One’s sentiments — call them that — one’s fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it’s own objects: is this not also true of fear?
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.
Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It’s the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.
Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can’t live up to then break our hearts at them because they don’t.
For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.
Experience isn’t interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.
Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter’s day.
In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.