The Novel Does Not Simply Recount Experience,

One Can Live In The Shadow Of An Idea Without Grasping It.

Characters Should On The Whole, Be Under Rather Than Over Articulate. What They Intend To Say Should Be More Evident, More Striking (because Of Its Greater Inner Importance To The Plot) Than What They Arrive At Saying.

Almost Everybody Wore A Curious Limpidity Of Expression, Like Newborn Babies Or Souls Just After Death. Dazed But Curiously Dignified.... After A Criseof Hysterical Revulsion And Tiredness, I Passed Beyondand Became Entered By A Rather Sublime Feeling.

Jealousy Is No More Than Feeling Alone Against Smiling Enemies.

Very Young People Are True But Not Resounding Instruments.