In all the books love is one of the great facts that mould human life. But it is a catastrophe: it happens suddenly and overwhelmingly, and there is little to be said about it.

“Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting …”

“Não, agora nunca mais diria, de ninguém neste mundo, que eram isto ou aquilo. S…”

“to teach without zest is a crime.”

“...you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to c…”