- "He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful - then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards."
- "'...you don't think the artist works from his intelligence?' 'No. He goes on improving, if he can, what he imitates in the way of style, and choosing from his own interpretation of the things around him what constitutes material.'"
- "'She's sparkling, Aunt Catherine,' said Richard pleasantly. 'A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.'"
- on youth and beauty "'...but he says the biography of every woman begins with the first kiss that counts, and ends when her last child is laid in her arms.' 'He says that unloved women have no biographies - they have histories.'"
- "It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before... The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory."
- "She would never blame him for being the ineffectual idler so long as he did it sincerely, from the attitude that nothing was worth doing."
dec 20 2011 ∞
dec 20 2011 +