“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.”

“It is our business to go as we are impelled.”

“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the time...”

“Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact . . . Time went on as the clock does, half-past eight instead of half-past seven.”