"Once they knew each other it was more difficult, because it is difficult to love those we know well. To be in love is…"

"To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all dist…"

"All my life I have, more of less consciously, sought an alternative way of life to his, one which is purer, one which…"

"When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings — not when you love either. (p. 203)"

"One way of poisoning love is to mingle it with hate. It is the best way but in some ways the most dangerous. Love and…"

"A little remorse they felt too in front of those who knew nothing, but it made their memories all the sweeter, for re…"

"The opera-glasses she stole from the bookcase so that each morning she could look through them down into the street i…"

"The worst of his life is not that he thinks that it is living, but that he is satisfied with it, and the most awful t…"

"They told me that everybody must think of his future and what is more that everybody did. Then I found that they were…"

"I'm tired of living, tired of living here in this land of small dogs, small feelings, small pleasures, small thoughts…"