Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise.
Perhaps among those who took to the greenwood in old time there had been two men like himself – two. At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.
Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.
The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.
We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness.
Brighter than magnesium wire – the light within.
The only relationship which Cecil conceived was feudal: that of protector and protected... He daren’t let a woman decide. He’s the type who’s kept Europe back for a thousand years. Every moment of his life he’s forming you, telling you what’s charming or amusing or ladylike, telling you what a man thinks womanly; and you, you all all women, listen to his voice instead of to your own.
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.
Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.
He had failed, and that wasn’t the saddest: he had seen Alex fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
It was the closing of a book that would never be read again, and better close such a book than leave it lying about to get dirtied.
I can’t be sacked from my job, because my job’s Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in. At Government College, I mix it up with trigonometry, and so on. When I’m a saddhu, I shall mix it up with something else.
Plenty of Indians travel light too – saddhus and such. It’s one of the things I admire about your country. Any man can travel light until he has a wife or children. That’s part of my case against marriage. I’m a holy man minus the holiness.
Once a cad, always a cad.
As civilization moves forward, the shoe is bound to pinch in places.
Their message was not of eternity, but of hope on this side of the grave.
Though none of his difficulties had been solved, none were added, which is something. The hush continued. He was less troubled by carnal thoughts. He stood still in the darkness instead of groping about in it, as if this was the end for which body and soul had been so painfully prepared.
She too is enamoured of heavy winds, and vast panoramas, and green expanses of the sea.
He was not attracted to the man in the sense that he wanted him for a friend, but he did feel he might help him – how, he didn’t formulate. It was all very obscure, for the mountains still overshadowed Maurice. Risley, surely capering on the summit, might stretch him a helping hand.