“That’s not the point, Milena, as far as I’m concerned you’re not a woman, you’re a girl, I’ve never seen anyone who was more of a girl than you, and girl that you are, I don’t dare offer you my hand, my dirty, twitching, clawlike, fidgety, unsteady, hot-cold hand.” Letters To Milena
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. Mrs. Dalloway
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. The Art Of War
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. Reflections on Literature and Morality
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