It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing

Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.

“No," Rick said. “I’m glad to know. Or rather––“ He became silent. “I’d prefer to know.

He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D.
"Nobody ever finds anybody in a place like that," he said, "People don’t go to a place like that to look for other people. That’s the opposite of the whole concept that’s behind the thing.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.