Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was, however; there she was.

“What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the h…”

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely i…”

“Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discon…”

“That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings …”