Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
Right now, the water just looks dirty, but it is safe.
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.
She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them.
The fear of life which is the beginning of all evil....
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
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