Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

“women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind…”

“The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius …”

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - a…”

“Little animal that I am, sucking my flanks in and out with fear, I stand here, …”