“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

“The ball was held in a middle-class home. The girls were anemic - some of them; the others were red as raspberries. John liked the pale ones best, the ones with black or blue rings round their eyes. They looked so sad and suffering and pitiable, and they cast tender yearning glances at him, such yearning glances.”

“if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married”

“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”

“He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.”

“Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.”

“The further from one another, the nearer one can be.”