You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself.
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
There was a kindliness about intoxication – there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Actually that’s my secret – I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?