“There is a Beatrice who exists beyond the obligations of a daughter, outside the object of man's affections.”
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself.”
“she wanted the man who held his infant daughter in his arms with fatherly affection, the man who could talk to her for hours and hours on a blanket in the grass,laid out under the trees.that man for some reason was out of reach.”
“Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there”
“The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.”
“I am a man for whom the outside world exists.”