I see myself as a fish in a stream; deflected, held in place; but cannot describe the stream.

She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result that she frittered her time away, lunching, dining, giving these incessant parties of hers, talking no sense, saying things she didn't mean, blunting the edge of her mind, losing her discrimination..

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Nothing is so strange when one is in love as the complete indifference of other people.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.