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I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been. . . .

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

The willow is full plumage and is no help, with its insinuating whispers.Rendevous, it says. Terraces;the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever. The summer dress rustles against the flesh of my thighs, the grass grows underfoot, at the edges of my eyes there are movements, in the branches; feathers, flittings, grace notes, tree into bird, metamorphosis run wild. Goddesses are possible now and the air suffuses with desire...Winter is not so dangerous. I need hardness, cold, rigidity; not this heaviness, as if I'm a melon on a stem, this liquid ripeness.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Women are fiends-absolute fiends.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

Count Vronsky: I love you! Anna Karenina: Why? Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do

How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

You fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don’t just go up to somebody and say, ‘You’re a terrific whistler.

I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age . sometimes I act a lot older than I am- I rally do - but people never notice it . people never notice anything.

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.