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The realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something?

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen's

Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.

Life's not all beer and skittles

The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.

Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

But Pierre, who like all who have known the sea was a child at heart, broke into loud exclamations

If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

In this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.

Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted
-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

Love is the sweetest monotony that was ever conceived of by the Creator.

For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.

Stephen, why are you shivering?'
'I don't know, my darling.'
'Mary, why are you crying?'
'I don't know, Stephen.'
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Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation
one point of light.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.