“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.”
― Shirley
― Shirley
“I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.”
― Selected Diaries
― Selected Diaries
“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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