“It was the abyss of human illusion that was the real, the tideless deep.”

“...he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss...”

“Deep experience is never peaceful.”

“Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”

“The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.”

“To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.”

“It was as if these depths, constantly bridged over by a structure that was firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss. A difference had been made moreover, once for all, by the fact that she had, all the while, not appeared to feel the need of rebutting his charge of an idea within her that she didn't dare express, uttered just before one of the fullest of their later discussions ended.”