I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few …”

“Edith had danced herself into that tired, dreamy state habitual only with début…”

“That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give s…”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”