Прекрасные и обреченные

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

"-... И что происходит со всеми, кого ты знал когда-то, с кем у тебя было столько общего?

• Вы просто дрейфуете в разные стороны, - предположила Мюриэл с подходящим к случаю мечтательным видом.
• Все люди меняются, - констатировала Глория. - И те качества, которые они не используют в повседневной жизни, постепенно зарастают паутиной."

Then these girls had gone east or west or south, married and become "people," prophesying, if they prophesied about Gloria, that she would come to a bad end - not knowing that no endings were bad, and that they, like her, were by no means the mistresses of their destinies.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't.

He's the sort whose idea of honoring and respecting a woman would be never to give her any excitement.

The Sunday Times, scattered about his feet, proclaimed by rotogravure and editorial, by social revelation and sporting sheet, that the world had been tremendously engrossed during the past week in the business of moving toward some splendid if somewhat indeterminate goal.

Such a kiss — it was a flower held against the face, never to be described, scarcely to be remembered; as though her beauty were giving off emanations of itself which settled transiently and already dissolving upon his heart.

"Art isn't meaningless."
"It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so."